ACEEE's comments (click here)
The Energy Policy Act (EPA) addresses energy production in the United States, (click here) including: (1) energy efficiency; (2) renewable energy; (3) oil and gas; (4) coal; (5) Tribal energy; (6) nuclear matters and security; (7) vehicles and motor fuels, including ethanol; (8) hydrogen; (9) electricity; (10) energy tax incentives; (11) hydropower and geothermal energy; and (12) climate change technology. For example, the Act provides loan guarantees for entities that develop or use innovative technologies that avoid the by-production of greenhouse gases. Another provision of the Act increases the amount of biofuel that must be mixed with gasoline sold in the United States.
They do not care. Got that yet. The people in power only care about money and not people.
THEY DO NOT CARE.
2050 is too late!
August 28, 2019
By Luke Metzger and Emma Pabst
Don’t believe the hype (click here) — producing natural gas is producing enormous problems for Texas.
The huge amount of water required for gas extraction, the frequent and damaging wastewater spills and earthquakes linked to disposal, the family farms and ranches seized for pipelines, and the air pollution, fires and explosions at petrochemical plants all add up to significant damage to our air, water and land. And a growing amount of gas is going to produce plastics, much of which wind up clogging our oceans.
A decade ago, the call to switch from dirty coal, a notorious pollutant, to “cleaner” natural gas might have at-least seemed like a no-brainer for the climate. Today, though, that’s far from clear. Gas is not a “bridge” to a cleaner future, as industry professionals would like you to believe, but a path back to the same fossil-fuel-burning, dead-ended energy system that we need to leave behind.
We’ve come to learn more about the ways that gas — which is mostly made of methane, a powerful pollutant that has 84 times the warming effect of carbon dioxide over a 20-year period — can leak into the atmosphere. From drilling to delivery to our homes and businesses, methane escapes at every stage. A 2018 study published in the journal Science estimated that methane leaks from the oil and gas supply chain is as much as 60 percent higher than the EPA estimates. Other research shows that methane levels in the atmosphere have spiked, rising unmistakably and consistently since 2007 — about when fracking began to take off in Texas and around the country....
