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Climate Inaction Plan: Obama’s Methane Strategy and its Perilous Path

Vermont Law

Summary: The Obama Administration published an ambitious plan this spring to reduce the nation’s methane emissions. Despite its lofty goals, the Methane Strategy is on course for political pitfalls and delays with regulating the largest source of emissions: the oil and gas sector. For an administration that has already faced difficulties meeting its own regulatory timetables, action is needed now if we are to see meaningful methane controls on the oil and gas industry within this Presidency.