Conservation groups have expressed their disappointment in the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed rule to prevent the waste of publicly owned energy resources.
Melissa Hornbein, senior attorney with the Western Environmental Law Center said the proposed rule fails to address routine, intentional venting and flaring as well as other forms of methane waste.
She said that the Bureau of Land Management has a unique opportunity to take specific and affirmative steps to eliminate the waste of gas caused by venting and flaring both of which cause climate pollution, negatively impact human health, and represent a waste of resources owned by Tribes and the American public.
According to Hornbein, in 2019, oil and gas operators vented or flared about 150 billion cubic feet of methane on federal and Tribal lands.
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