Hannah Grover
A pumpjack is seen in Aztec, a part of New Mexico where a methane hotspot has been discovered.
The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to restore methane regulations that were instituted under President Barack Obama and rolled back under President Donald Trump.
The Senate used the Congressional Review Act to push for the repeal of Trump’s rollbacks of the Environmental Protection Agency methane reduction rule. The Congressional Review Act gives Congress the authority to undo agency actions that were taken within the last months of the previous administration.
The House of Representatives, which has a Democratic majority, is expected to vote on the measure next month.
Fortunately, the young girl was not hurt and the mother says she hopes would have been here serves as a reminder to drivers to stop when they say school buses dropping off children. if you met such a scary thing and everybody sending their kids off to the start of a new school year. jon: you wonder if the driver saw the school bus, maybe texting. sandra: stop, look, and listen always. set to roll back restrictions on a powerful greenhouse gas, wanting to erase obama and revels on methane but many companies are opposed to this. it dry now by former senior epa official in the trump administration. so obviously, we can expect reaction to this but what is the goal? the goal is to get out of this mentality of regulating for the sake of regulating. with the trump administration has done has taken an that requires a bit more work but taking the recount the fact that methane regulations which is the
Reprieve on methane rules. those two papers kind of say it all. the world is on fire. climate change is happening. and while we all know that to be true, the trump ep is going to roll back methane which has 80 times the heat trapping power of carbon dioxide in the first 20 years it s in the atmosphere. methane regulations were put in place by the obama administration in 2016, and many of the major energy companies actually support them. right now the president is not justifiedling around while the earth burns. he is actively setting new fires. the president is actively making the problem worse. and it s not just this. this is the second proposed regulation regulatory rollback where the administration has tried to override the industry to make the planet less healthy. a few months ago you might remember the administration proposed a plan to lift mileage requirements of fuel efficiency standards on big auto, which much of big auto didn t even want. right now the trump administration s
You know my attitude. it is what i do for a living. president trump s personal assistant abruptly resigned after serving as the president s gate keeper. the unexpected departure came after trump learned she shared with reporters intimate details about his family and some oval office operations. according to one of the people familiar said she was now considered a, quote, separated employee and would not be allowed to return. a former rnc aid reportedly cried because she was upset over trump s victory. the president first viewed her as quote a late convert who could not be trusted. the president s roll out of methane regulations that some oil and gas companies say it is extreme. we ll discuss that next.
As earth heats. we have been of course bringing you this story night after night. everyone around the world is watching the amazon burn in realtime. everyone is watching seibia burn. everyone is watching greenland melt before our eyes. it is happening right now on your tv screen. there is a hurricane barreling towards the coast of florida. we are at the point where, really, honestly, no one is truly denying what we are looking at. it s just happening, right there in front of our eyes. the climate crisis is here. and today on the front page of the wall street journal, energy companies set to get reprieve on methane rules. those two papers kind of say it all. the world is on fire. climate change is happening. and while we all know that to be true, the trump ep is going to roll back methane which has 80 times the heat trapping power of carbon dioxide in the first 20 years it s in the atmosphere. methane regulations were put in place by the obama administration in 2016, and many