Generate: Two Things about Methane Emissions
View on Axios website"New tally: Analysts from the think tank Resources For the Future have a new look at a regulation Trump wants to kill — Interior Department rules to cut emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane from oil-and-gas development on federal lands. The bottom line: The effect of killing or keeping the rule rests on whether the social cost of methane (SC-CH4) — a metric of damages expected from additional pollution — is tallied domestically or globally. Trump's Interior is using a domestic tally; the Obama-era rule looked worldwide. By the numbers: 'Using a domestic SC-CH4, repealing the rule results in net benefits of $495 million to $860 million. With a global SC-CH4, repeal results in net costs of $814 million to $1.2 billion,' states a summary of the research."
