Methane Emissions Draw EPA Limits (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Cows make a lot of it, when they make cow pies. The oil and gas industry makes more. Methane It’s the gas that escapes and bleeds off of oil and gas drilling sites, wellheads, processing plants, distribution lines. It’s a super global-warmer when it hits the atmosphere – 25 times more potent there than the big global culprit carbon dioxide, CO2. Now the Obama administration, through the EPA, wants to start to rein in that methane leakage from oil and gas production. It’s a big deal at the drilling site, and for the climate. This hour On Point: putting the plug in methane. /Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/08/20/methane-emissions-natural-gas-epa