Critics warn of climate danger as president in Texas claims change will save companies and consumers billions
Donald Trump announced his administration is “terminating” Biden-era regulations holding oil and gas companies accountable for large leaks of planet-warming methane during a rally in Lubbock, Texas, on Tuesday evening.
Trump said during a campaign rally in Texas that the change would save consumers and energy producers $45bn and unlock 210 million barrels of oil – equivalent to about 10 days of US petroleum consumption. “Tonight, I’m officially terminating Biden’s expensive and unnecessary methane regulations to save consumers and energy producers,” Trump said, lifting what he called “crippling regulations on methane that caused prices to skyrocket” for small oil and gas operators.
The move aims to encourage more domestic drilling as Trump faces criticism over high fuel prices stemming from the US war in Iran.
Lubbock is probably the worst town I’ve ever been too. It’s nothing but a joke highway town, for semis from south Texas heading to Albuquerque, or Arizona. The weirdest religious people I ve ever met live in that area.
He was really there? The 6000 uneducated farmers must have felt so seen having that pedophile in their town.