Methane

"Biden should direct the EPA to use the full power of the Clean Air Act to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas by 65% by 2025," said one advocate.

"Reducing human-caused methane emissions is one of the most cost-effective strategies to rapidly reduce the rate of warming and contribute significantly to global efforts to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C."

The report confirms that "natural gas is the precise opposite of a climate solution," wrote author and activist Bill McKibben.

NOAA warned that carbon dioxide and methane "continued their unrelenting rise in 2020."

While lawmakers are also using the Congressional Review Act to challenge one other policy change, it could be used to target dozens of deregulatory actions from Trump's presidency.

337,000 pounds of benzene, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and sulfur dioxide were flared, as well as an indeterminate amount of methane. 

"No amount of spin changes the fact that the oil and gas extraction is wreaking havoc on our communities and our climate."

"Climate warming is awakening the 'sleeping giants' of the carbon cycle," warned one researcher.

The judge delivered a "puzzling and unsupported conclusion that the Bureau of Land Management can't limit methane waste because that would reduce greenhouse gas pollution."