As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell issued the following statement today on the release of the Interagency Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions:
“The President’s interagency strategy puts us on a path to reduce
methane emissions while continuing to harness America’s domestic energy
resources that power our economic future. Working collaboratively with
our federal partners, state governments and the private sector, the
Interior Department is taking steps to capture and sell natural gas and
reduce methane emissions from oil, gas and coal development on public
lands to improve air quality and achieve public health and economic
benefits. We will continue to work hand in hand with states and industry
to power more homes with cleaner American-made energy, while reducing
methane emissions and cutting carbon pollution.”
Interior’s Bureau of Land Management is studying a number of steps to
reduce the amount of methane that is vented or flared from oil and gas
development on public lands and as waste from coal mines...more
The strategy includes reduced emissions from livestock (see my post here). Since they are reducing uses on federal lands based on the endangered species act and global warming, I suppose it is within the realm of possibility they would reduce grazing to lessen methane emissions. You never know with this administration.
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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