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<\/a><\/a><\/a>\"\"<\/a>It was disappointing, but unfortunately not surprising, that Chesapeake Energy and three natural gas industry trade associations filed legal challenges to EPA\u2019s new rule<\/a> that requires assessment and public disclosure of the industry\u2019s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I find it ironic that the industry<\/a> that touts itself as the \u201clow-carbon\u201d fossil fuel<\/a> is fighting efforts to require disclosure of its global warming pollution.<\/p>\n

Learn more about this in our news release<\/a> sent out earlier today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was disappointing, but unfortunately not surprising, that Chesapeake Energy and three natural gas industry trade associations filed legal challenges to EPA\u2019s new rule that requires assessment and public disclosure of the industry\u2019s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.\u00a0 I find it ironic that the industry that touts itself as the \u201clow-carbon\u201d fossil fuel is fighting efforts …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,693,181],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate","category-natural-gas","category-texas"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nGas Industry Lawsuits Undermine Americans' Right To Know About Dangerous Pollution - Energy Exchange<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2011\/02\/01\/gas-industry-lawsuits-undermine-americans-right-to-know-about-dangerous-pollution\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gas Industry Lawsuits Undermine Americans' Right To Know About Dangerous Pollution - 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