Biden announces new methane rules and launches global pledge to slash planet-warming emissions
CNN
The EPA is proposing stringent rules on methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
At the center of Biden's US methane strategy is a rule from the EPA that would push oil and gas companies to more accurately detect, monitor and repair methane leaks from new and existing wells, pipelines and other equipment. The agency estimates the rule would cut 41 million tons of methane emissions from 2023 to 2035 -- more greenhouse gas than all the carbon dioxide emitted by all US passenger cars and commercial planes in 2019.
Alongside EU President Ursula von der Leyen, Biden also officially launched a Global Methane Pledge that has been months in the making.
President Joe Biden is expected to announce an executive order as early as Tuesday that would effectively shut down the US-Mexico border to asylum-seekers crossing illegally when a daily threshold of crossings is exceeded – a sweeping and controversial proposal that is likely to receive fierce pushback from progressives and immigration advocates.
In the days and weeks leading up Hunter Biden’s trial on felony gun charges, President Joe Biden made little attempt to distance himself from his son. Instead, Hunter Biden was seen at the White House and in Delaware at his father’s side amid what the president’s allies acknowledge is a difficult moment for both men.