We’re in a big moment, as the political landscape liquifies and reshapes beneath our feet. We at RDP expect to be spending significant time in coming months grappling with the vast impact of the 725-page Inflation Reduction Act and its tag-along coal baron wishlist (aka “permitting reform” bill), from the shifts in executive branch authority, funding, and personnel, to the bills’ diverging impacts on millions of people’s lives, and on ecosystems from Cook Inlet to the Appalachian Basin. Here’s a preview of some of the things we expect to focus on:
If methane "numbers" are coming from Texas then you can just flush those down the toilet! Texas routinely turns off GHG and pollutant monitoring in adverse events: process and plant shutdowns and consequent startups, flareouts, hurricanes, what have you......if Texas touches it....you can forget it. Where any "adverse event" consists of a non-routine operating condition. Period. Non routine conditions are precisely the methane blowout conditions.
If methane "numbers" are coming from Texas then you can just flush those down the toilet! Texas routinely turns off GHG and pollutant monitoring in adverse events: process and plant shutdowns and consequent startups, flareouts, hurricanes, what have you......if Texas touches it....you can forget it. Where any "adverse event" consists of a non-routine operating condition. Period. Non routine conditions are precisely the methane blowout conditions.