You’ve seen them, either in person or on TV–bursts of smoke and flame from oil and gas stacks. This process of “flaring” burns off wasted…wait for it…METHANE. Yes, they put hazardous, health-endangering methane into the air people breathe.
But doesn’t the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management oversee this to protect us? Yes and no. Soon possibly mainly no. Because that Department has proposed weakening what protections currently exist. Leaving the way open to more flaring, which means more methane into our air to poison it and increase the threat to life.
Read more about this and sign the petition to the Secretary of the Interior to urge him to oppose this proposal.