Bills Introduced – 11-07-19

Yesterday with just the Senate in session there were 30 bills introduced. One of these bills will receive future coverage in this blog:

S 2818 A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to issue regulations to ban the venting and flaring of gas in oil and gas production operations in the United States, and for other purposes. Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]

Okay, I will admit to a viscerally horrified objection to this bill when I read the descriptive title above, but we will have to see what the wording of the prohibition actually is before we can tell if this is a totally misguided attempt to prohibit a legitimate and necessary safety process. I understand that methane gas is a powerful greenhouse gas and that venting it as a ‘waste disposal process’ is probably an insanely wasteful environmental mistake, but there are severe safety issues that must be taken into account.

Enough of the rant, I will wait for the bill to be published and report accordingly.