Inhofe: New Methane Rule “Purely Political Move”

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U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) sounded off Tuesday on the Bureau of Land Management’s final rule on methane and oil and gas operations on public and Indian lands.

“This purely political move by the Obama administration is a last ditch effort to save the president’s crumbling climate legacy,” said Inhofe. “BLM’s rule on methane and the oil and gas industry is unnecessary and duplicative. Congress has many tools with which to rescind this rule and I look forward to working with the incoming Trump Administration to ensure economic expansion prevails over misguided bureaucratic interference.”

The chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee released his recent statement after the Obama Administration implemented the rules in an effort to cut methane emissions from oil and gas by more than 40 percent from the 2012 levels by 2025.

Since last year, Inhofe had led a group of Senate Republicans opposing the new federal mandates regulating methane emissions from the oil and natural gas sector.

The Oklahoma congressman has voiced his concern on numerous occasions about bureaucratic red tape associated with this policy.