Cheniere backs efforts to overturn Trump methane rule in Congress

摘要

Cheniere Energy, the largest US LNG exporter, announced its support for policies and regulations to cut methane emissions, including efforts by US lawmakers to overturn the Trump administration’s rollback of methane emissions standards for oil and gas wells. In an April 20 tweet, Cheniere expressed support for a resolution introduced by mostly Democratic lawmakers in March under the Congressional Review Act that would strike down the previous presidential administration’s 2020 methane rescission rule and largely reinstate oil and natural gas new source performance standards that the US Environmental Protection Agency finalized in 2012 and 2016. “To maximize the climate benefits of natural gas, we recognize the imperative to minimize methane emissions across the natural gas value chain,” Cheniere said. “We support effective policies and regulations that reduce methane emissions, including the current Congressional Review Act effort to restore federal regulation of methane emissions.”