{"id":18863,"date":"2019-03-01T13:18:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/?p=18863"},"modified":"2019-10-14T14:25:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T18:25:49","slug":"api-attacks-on-methane-safeguards-contradict-science-and-drag-the-industry-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2019\/03\/01\/api-attacks-on-methane-safeguards-contradict-science-and-drag-the-industry-backwards\/","title":{"rendered":"API attacks on methane safeguards contradict science and drag the industry backwards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/em>Methane is a powerful pollutant responsible for more than 25 percent of climate change we experience today\u2014and the oil and gas sector is the largest industrial source of methane emissions. Recent scientific evidence<\/a> only underscores the importance of addressing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, at the request<\/a> of the American Petroleum Institute (API) and others in industry, the Trump administration has issued a proposal to dramatically weaken common sense standards that address oil and gas emissions, allowing for an increase in pollution. In addition, reports suggest that EPA is moving forward with a second proposal<\/a> that could entirely remove the direct regulation of methane in the oil and gas sector, which would fly in the face of the well-established scientific record documenting the harms of this powerful pollutant and would disregard the substantial amount of pollution emitted from oil and gas sources.<\/p>\n

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While some companies like Exxon and Shell<\/a> are increasingly recognizing the critical importance of taking actions (including supporting methane regulations) to reduce this harmful pollution, API is doing its best to drag the industry backwards by pushing EPA to disregard the scientific evidence and deregulate methane altogether.<\/p>\n

In December, the industry association continued its longstanding opposition to methane safeguards in its comments on EPA\u2019s first proposal to weaken common sense methane standards for new and modified sources in the oil and natural gas sector. API\u2019s comments<\/a> encouraged EPA to dramatically weaken current requirements, and suggested that the agency does not need to regulate methane emissions directly\u2014despite the oil and gas industry\u2019s well-recognized methane problem.\u00a0ExxonMobil and other companies broadly endorsed API comments on weakening current requirements, a position at odds with company commitments to support sound and effective methane regulation. However, ExxonMobil did break from API by urging EPA to continue regulating methane emissions directly \u2013 an important recognition of the threat methane poses.<\/p>\nAPI attacks on methane safeguards contradict science and drag the industry backwards <\/a><\/span>Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n

Unfortunately, many companies, including some that have made commitments to methane reduction, continue to allow API to speak for them\u2014tacitly endorsing a position at odds with science that only deepens risks to industry\u2019s license-to-operate. Now is the time for responsible companies, who themselves have recognized the importance of addressing this significant problem, to distance themselves from API\u2019s harmful positions.<\/p>\n

API\u2019s longstanding opposition to methane regulation<\/strong><\/p>\n

API’s recent comments continue its long history of trying to block progress on methane reductions. For example, when EPA was first developing methane standards for new facilities in the oil and gas industry in 2015, API argued<\/a> that direct regulation of methane was \u201cunlawful\u201d and \u201cunnecessary,\u201d claiming methane emissions from the sector aren\u2019t a significant contributor to climate change. This opposition stemmed in part from the group\u2019s recognition that methane standards for new sources \u201cwould trigger an obligation\u201d for EPA to address pollution from existing oil and natural gas sources\u2014which account for the vast majority of methane emissions from the sector. While EPA rejected API\u2019s arguments in the final 2016 new source standards, API has continued to push for weakening and removal of methane standards in its most recent comments while making claims<\/a> that voluntary initiatives are sufficient to address the industry\u2019s methane issues.<\/p>\n

API\u2019s positions are increasingly out-of-step with industry leaders, such as ExxonMobil and other companies in the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative<\/a> (OGCI), which recognize the threat that methane emissions poses for both the climate and for any future role of natural gas.<\/p>\n

A dangerous stance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fundamentally, API\u2019s opposition to methane regulation (and resistance to even recognizing methane as a pollutant) ignores the serious harm posed by methane pollution from the oil and gas industry. EPA recognized this threat in 2016 when it adopted the New Source Performance Standards for the oil and gas industry<\/a> (NSPS), where the agency underscored, based on extensive evidence, that methane is a harmful pollutant and the oil and gas sector is a substantial source of this pollution. The agency concluded it had an obligation to adopt common sense standards to reduce the pollution.<\/p>\n

Since the finalization of the NSPS, new evidence has emerged conveying the scale of oil and gas methane pollution, such as a study last year<\/a> that found methane emissions from the industry are more than 60% higher than estimated by EPA. The new data, combined with the destructive impacts of climate change<\/a>, only reinforce the importance of addressing this powerful pollution. Just this month, a new paper<\/a> from the American Geophysical Union described atmospheric methane’s increase since 2007, saying methane reductions from the oil and gas industry are urgently needed and \u201cessential\u201d to meeting global climate protection goals.<\/p>\n

API\u2019s attempts to encourage the Trump administration to remove methane regulation completely ignore this overwhelming (and growing) body of scientific information. Previous Trump administration attempts to deregulate the oil and gas sector\u2014where the agency took actions at odds with the underlying factual record\u2014have already run afoul<\/a> of the courts<\/a>. EPA\u2019s recent proposal exhibits these same shortcomings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Should EPA move forward with a proposal to remove methane regulation, as urged by API, the agency would be disregarding an enormous body of scientific evidence and doubling down on its deeply flawed approach. Even as some in industry recognize that their continued legitimacy in the public sphere depends on recognizing climate science and taking action in line with widely shared and scientifically-based climate goals,\u00a0they continue to endorse API\u2019s retrograde advocacy.<\/p>\n

And while companies like Exxon have recognized standards for controlling methane emissions from existing sources are important to reduce this harmful pollution, as well as feasible and critical for natural gas\u2019 future in the clean energy transition, API continues to reflexively oppose regulation at these facilities. This lowest common denominator approach is out of step with the successful methane management programs that many API member companies are already implementing, including at existing sources. For example, companies like Noble and Anadarko are complying with\u2014and thriving under\u2014protective Colorado leak detection standards for existing sources. Other companies are going beyond compliance and making investments in the future of methane mitigation, as Equinor has with their work on drone-based mobile methane monitoring<\/a>.<\/p>\n

EDF supports companies\u2019 commitments to reduce methane emissions from their own operations and has worked with industry to develop innovative methane solutions. However, market incentives and voluntary reductions aren\u2019t enough to address the full scope of the methane problem in the oil and gas sector, as API has long claimed. Because companies capture additional product when they cut methane emissions, methane abatement programs are often extremely cost-effective\u2014but pure market mechanisms do not account for the harm to society from methane, and are therefore insufficient to drive the emissions reductions that are needed from the industry, as Catherine Hausman of the University of Michigan described in a recent policy brief<\/a>. Likewise, voluntary programs don\u2019t address the full scope of the problem\u2014for instance, only about one percent of America\u2019s thousands of oil and natural gas producers are members of API\u2019s voluntary program<\/a> to address methane emissions, the Environmental Partnership.<\/p>\n

Strong methane regulations are needed to provide protections for all Americans and a baseline, level playing field for all in the industry. API\u2019s advocacy against methane regulations ignores the clear health and environmental threat of unchecked methane emissions and further exacerbates risks the industry faces as investors and consumers increasingly demand clean energy. It is time for industry leaders to stop allowing API to drag them backwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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