506 #ClimatePolitics #BigOil #Hypocracy

"Trump has vowed to gut climate rules. Oil lobbyists have a plan ready."
by Evan Halper and Josh Dawsey for the Washington Post [Oct 18, 2024]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/17/oil-industry-trump-climate-lobbying/

Quotes:
"As companies fall short on methane emission reductions, a top trade group has crafted a road map for dismantling key Biden administration rules."

"An influential oil and gas industry group../ [American Exploration and Production Council, or AXPC JdeB] \..has drafted detailed plans for dismantling landmark Biden administration climate rules after the presidential election"

"They reveal a comprehensive industry effort to reverse climate initiatives advanced during the past nearly four years of Democratic leadership. At the same time, the documents contain confidential data showing that industry’s voluntary initiatives to cut emissions from burning natural gas have fallen short."

"The policy plans, contained in documents distributed to a wide group of company executives at AXPC board meetings in April and August, also call for a repeal of more than a half-dozen executive orders that lie at the center of the Biden administration’s efforts to combat climate change. Taken together, the group’s goals amount to a monumental rollback of some of the most aggressive federal tools for cutting emissions."

“The data shows that the U.S. leads the world in emissions reduction because of the responsible production of oil and natural gas and we’re happy to engage any organization that wants to have a serious conversation on facts, science, and real solutions,” Bednar said in a statement. [BS with over 3 million abandonned pits leaking tons of methane JdeB]"

"At the gathering, Trump told industry executives that their best shot at a rewrite of climate policies that inhibit fossil fuel production would be to raise $1 billion to help propel him back into office."

"Trump “promised to grant their wishes,” said David Doniger, senior adviser to the NRDC Action Fund, the political arm of the Natural Resources Defense Council, the large environmental advocacy group. “And this is their wish list,” he said of the AXPC policy road map, which he reviewed at the request of The Post."

"ExxonMobil officials sought to distance themselves from the AXPC documents, saying the company does not agree with all of the plans being pursued by the group.
“We are aligned with them on many issues, but there are some issues where we are not,” said Bart Cahir, a senior vice president at ExxonMobil. He said ExxonMobil supports the methane fee."

"The confidential AXPC survey on methane emissions showed that while half the members that responded reduced methane flaring from 2021 to 2023, the rest went in the other direction. Flaring is the burning of excess natural gas, which contains methane, during fracking and oil production. Some companies more than doubled the amount of gas they flared"

"Outlined in the documents is more than a half-million dollars in political spending by AXPC to support Republicans in U.S. Senate races in Montana, Ohio and Pennsylvania, which could help push the chamber to GOP control. A small share of AXPC’s political spending goes to Democrats, mostly House members in oil- and gas-producing swing districts."

"Under the group’s plans, Biden climate measures would be replaced by new executive orders that promote fossil fuel production and lift a federal pause on the construction of massive infrastructure to export liquefied natural gas. Federal rules that require climate considerations to be taken into account for major infrastructure projects would be rewritten. That includes eliminating the Public Lands Rule, which reshuffled priorities involving federal land away from drilling and toward landscape and habitat protection."

"ExxonMobil said at the time that “the long-term nature of the climate change challenge requires that we all work together, and we look forward to working with the new Administration to put the U.S. on a path of achieving the goals of Paris.
ConocoPhillips says on its website that it accepts the scientific findings underpinning the Paris agreement, which it calls “a welcomed global policy response” to climate change.
A Hess climate disclosure starts with the company’s support of the Paris agreement’s goals."

"Independent monitoring groups say the companies are not living up to their pledges. The think tank Carbon Tracker published a REPORT CARD in March that found all the major oil and gas companies were far off track in meeting the Paris targets. ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips received among the worst grades. Hess was not included in the report."
link to download the report card:
-> carbontracker.org/reports/paris-maligned-2/ <-

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