By Edward Cross, President of the Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Association The Biden administration announced that it will be revising and expanding federal regulation of methane emissions. States are actively implementing their own regulations. And yet, now, Congress is considering an inappropriate and unworkable methane emissions tax. The Methane Emissions Reduction Act is unnecessary […]
The American Petroleum Institute (API) and 130 energy, manufacturing, business and labour trade organisations across the natural gas and oil supply chain recently sent a letter to the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works opposing legislation that would place a fee on methane. The organisations, led by API, explain that the proposal is […]
The Marcellus Shale Coalition, along with the Gas & Oil Association of West Virginia, and the Ohio Oil and Gas Association, is urging the congressional delegation from Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio to oppose a proposed methane emissions reduction tax that is included in the federal budget reconciliation bill currently being negotiated by Congress. Of […]
On behalf of the companies and associations that make up the natural gas supply chain and the 180 million Americans and the 5.5 million businesses that rely on natural gas, we would like to express our concerns about including a methane emissions fee or tax in budget reconciliation legislation. Through numerous programs and initiatives, our […]
The letter focuses on the negative impact of a fee on methane emissions from oil and natural gas facilities, a plan based on Democratic legislation known as the Methane Emissions Reduction Act of 2021. This proposal would assess an escalating $1,800 per-ton fee on businesses based on their share of activity in a particular geologic […]
We are writing on behalf of our respective organizations to urge your opposition to any fee on methane emissions that may be considered as part of the budget reconciliation package. Such a fee is simply an unreasonable, punitive tax intended to harm the oil and natural gas industry and consumers, as well as diminish the […]
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