{"id":6319,"date":"2014-03-03T20:47:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T20:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/?p=6319"},"modified":"2014-03-10T14:26:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T14:26:32","slug":"practical-air-pollution-controls-even-the-oil-and-gas-industry-cant-deny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2014\/03\/03\/practical-air-pollution-controls-even-the-oil-and-gas-industry-cant-deny\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical Air Pollution Controls Even the Oil and Gas Industry Can&#8217;t Deny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This commentary originally appeared on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edf.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/03\/time-oil-and-gas-industry-come-table-and-eat-their-proverbial-vegetables\" target=\"_blank\">EDF Voices blog<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/38\/files\/2014\/03\/frackingwyo_92689731_rf_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-6325\" alt=\"methane_animation_still-1_0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/38\/files\/2014\/03\/frackingwyo_92689731_rf_0.jpg\" width=\"385\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a>Everyone knows that if you want your kids to grow up strong and healthy, they need to eat their vegetables. But as any parent knows, it\u2019s easier said than done. That\u2019s why in my house, there is a rule: you can\u2019t have any dessert until you eat your vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>Now, of course, my kids like to argue with me and my wife about exactly how many vegetables they have to eat and whether they can reach into the fridge and select a different vegetable if they don\u2019t like the one she or I cooked that night. That\u2019s okay. We like to encourage creative problem solving. But there\u2019s no getting around the rule. You\u00a0<em>must<\/em>\u00a0eat your vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>As I see it,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edf.org\/climate\/methane\" target=\"_blank\">methane pollution<\/a>\u00a0from the oil and gas industry is a lot like kids and vegetables.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/business.edf.org\/projects\/natural-gas\" target=\"_blank\">Reducing it is good<\/a>\u00a0for them, but we have to have a rule that requires them to do it.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edf.org\/methanesolutions\" target=\"_blank\">new report<\/a>\u00a0EDF commissioned, the U.S. oil and gas industry could achieve a 40 percent reduction in methane pollution within the next five years for less than one penny per million cubic feet of gas produced. The total amount of capital required to achieve this significant reduction would be less than 1% of the capital expenditures the industry made this year alone!<\/p>\n<p>And, what does the oil and gas industry get for this investment? Well, for one thing, the report shows that certain measures actually return a profit to producers and pipeline owners, taking into consideration the gas that is recovered and sold rather than wasted into the air. The report also notes that many measures could reduce methane and other types of harmful air pollution, such as ozone-forming VOCs that contribute to health problems. In other words, even those measures that cost the oil and gas industry something in absolute terms yields a benefit to the industry over the longer term by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edf.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/25\/colo-sets-national-precedent-air-quality-and-climate\" target=\"_blank\">addressing the air pollution<\/a>\u00a0that is one of the big reasons communities want to ban oil and gas production outright.<\/p>\n<p>If the costs are so little and the benefits are so great, why isn\u2019t industry already clamoring to make the changes that the report says are available and affordable?<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that it\u2019s because in today\u2019s market \u2013 where oil prices are high and natural gas prices are relatively low \u2013 the oil and gas industry is in such a hurry to develop that next set of oil wells and the flush of new revenues this brings that they\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-03-03\/drillers-can-plug-methane-leaks-at-wells-cheaply-study.html\" target=\"_blank\">overlook opportunities to capture the methane<\/a>\u00a0that comes along with the oil, have even less interest in attending to their existing set of oil and gas wells where production, and revenues, may be slowly tailing off, and\/or where associated infrastructure is paid off and any amount of new capital spending required eats into whatever profit margins there may be.<\/p>\n<p>And so, like my kids at the dinner table, the U.S. oil and gas industry is in such a rush to get the sugar high that comes with large new oil revenues that they\u2019d gladly pass up the marginal returns to be had in reducing methane and other air emissions, and avoiding pollution, which is important to their license to operate \u2013 their ability to thrive and grow \u2013 over the long term. That\u2019s why we need a rule that says that the oil and gas industry must reduce methane pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I work at Environmental Defense Fund, and we put a premium on creative problem solving.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/26\/colorados-proposal-shows-what-it-takes-make-progress-climate\" target=\"_blank\">In Colorado<\/a>\u00a0we worked closely with the state\u2019s three leading oil and gas producers to craft a regulation that is both flexible and effective at addressing methane and other air pollution from oil and gas operations. Just last week, thanks in large measure to the leadership of Colorado\u2019s Governor John Hickenlooper, this regulation was adopted by the Air Quality Control Commission at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2014\/02\/23\/critical-decision-expected-tomorrow-in-colorado-on-clean-air-rule\/\" target=\"_blank\">end of a formal rulemaking hearing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We think the Colorado air regulations can be a model for other oil and gas producing states. We also think it is an example that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should look at carefully, given that federal oil and gas air regulations don\u2019t address methane pollution directly and have some other significant gaps. This new report shows us that regulating methane and other harmful air pollution is possible today, at minimal costs to industry. And the breakthrough recently made in Colorado combined with the report\u2019s findings gives policymakers a blueprint of how reducing methane can be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This commentary originally appeared on our EDF Voices blog. Everyone knows that if you want your kids to grow up strong and healthy, they need to eat their vegetables. But as any parent knows, it\u2019s easier said than done. 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