Post AxpcwIWVvqGi7fgNDU by Nonilex@masto.ai
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 (DIR) Post #AxpcwIWVvqGi7fgNDU by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-09-03T14:23:14Z
       
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       #Trump Says US #Oil Industry Is ‘Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive #Emissions From #Texas Wells.…Texas regulators tout their efforts to curtail oil field emissions by requiring drillers to obtain permits to release or burn #gas from their wells.#law #regulations #EnvironmentalLaw #FossilFuels #pollution #climate #ClimateCrisis https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-methane-oil-emissions-climate
       
 (DIR) Post #Axpd7s8vq61nmSAg8u by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-09-03T14:25:23Z
       
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       Yet a first-of-its-kind analysis of permit applications to the Railroad Commission of #Texas, the state’s main #oil & #gas regulator, reveals a rubber-stamp system that allows drillers to emit vast amounts of #NaturalGas into the atmosphere. Over 40 months—from May 2021 to Sept 2024—oil companies applied for >12,000 flaring & venting permits, while the Railroad Commission rejected just 53 of them, a 99.6% approval rate, acc/to the data.#law #FossilFuels #pollution #climate #Trump
       
 (DIR) Post #AxpdYVMqct9exiNbY8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-09-03T14:30:11Z
       
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       #NaturalGas is composed mostly of #climate-warming #methane but also contains other gases such as #HydrogenSulfide, which is #deadly at high concentrations. #Gas escapes as wells are drilled & before infrastructure is in place to capture it. It also can be intentionally released if pressure in the system poses a safety risk or if capturing & transporting it to be sold is not profitable.#law #EnvironmentalLaw #FossilFuels #pollution #climate #ClimateCrisis #GreenhouseGas #Emissions #Trump
       
 (DIR) Post #AxpeL0MShAYKzIKFvM by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-09-03T14:33:07Z
       
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       Typically, drillers burn the #gas they don’t capture, converting the #methane to #CarbonDioxide, a less potent #GreenhouseGas, in a process called #flaring. Sometimes, they release the gas without burning it, in a process called #venting.The permit applications showed #oil companies requested to flare or vent >195 billion cubic feet of #NaturalGas per year, enough to power >3 million homes & generate millions of dollars of tax revenue had the gas been captured.#law #pollution #climate #Trump
       
 (DIR) Post #AxpeL21cVd4O9EadiS by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-09-03T14:37:56Z
       
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       Those #emissions would have a #climate-warming impact roughly equivalent to 27 gas-fired power plants operating year-round, even if the flares burned every molecule of #methane released….“It’s a gargantuan amount of emissions. Because so much of this #gas is methane & so much of it is either incompletely combusted or not combusted at all through the venting process, we see a huge #climate impact,”said Jack McDonald, snr analyst of #energy policy & #science for…Oilfield Witness.#law #Trump
       
 (DIR) Post #AxpeZsvQcmMKGjmCQq by paulschoe@mastodon.world
       2025-09-03T14:41:34Z
       
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       Trump has no knowledge.When Trump says that US Oil Industry Is ‘Cleaner Than Other Countries’, it means that is what he thinks his audience at that particular moment, in that room, likes to hear.It does not mean that he knows anything about US Oil's emissions, let alone those of other countries.@Nonilex #Trump #ConMan #AlwaysLies #NoKnowledge
       
 (DIR) Post #Axpg3qQOaNZ39h6vhI by TomDB@mastodon-belgium.be
       2025-09-03T14:58:10Z
       
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       @Nonilex He’s willfully ignorant.