The measure, which requires oil and gas producers to detect and fix leaks of the greenhouse gas, came as the U.S. vice president spoke at the COP28 climate summit.
They simply didn’t care. There’s a whole genre of people using thermal imaging cameras to see vast quantities of methane being released by oil wells and other fossil fuel infrastructure from things like unlit flares.
The Inflation Reduction Act imposed a tax on methane emissions by the oil and gas industry at high-emissions locations, so now suddenly people are interested in both collecting the tax and in preventing the emissions to avoid the tax.
They simply didn’t care. There’s a whole genre of people using thermal imaging cameras to see vast quantities of methane being released by oil wells and other fossil fuel infrastructure from things like unlit flares.
The Inflation Reduction Act imposed a tax on methane emissions by the oil and gas industry at high-emissions locations, so now suddenly people are interested in both collecting the tax and in preventing the emissions to avoid the tax.