'It's the right thing to do for the planet,' wrote the chairwoman and president of BP America in defence of federal regulations.
so large that even oil companies are objecting to the change.
But oil and gas bigwigs don't support the change. Susan Dio, the chairwoman and president of BP America, wrote an opinion piece for the"It's the right thing to do for the planet," she wrote."The best way to help further reduce and ultimately eliminate methane emissions industry wide is through direct federal regulation of new and existing sources."
The administration's new rule change could hurt the entire industry."The reputation of American natural gas is at the precipice, and methane rollbacks are the shove," Ben Ratner, a senior director with the Environmental Defense Fund, toldBut it's likely that smaller companies, however, will benefit, at least temporarily, from this particular rollback.
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