EDF Voices: Natural gas

Strong methane emissions policy can help remove uncertainty in the investor community and stimulate the economy, the Wall Street firm says.

This is a time to feel optimistic, EDF President Fred Krupp tells the Aspen Ideas Festival.

A new, bipartisan effort to tackle super pollutants shows that Washington is waking up to the methane problem.

We know that any methane leakage from oil and natural gas plants contributes to climate change. Our focus now should be on fixing the problem.

Pragmatic questions and realities that transcend the rhetoric on shale gas development.

Reducing methane emissions is a tailor made opportunity for putting in place sound policy, developed collaboratively for the country.

The Challenge announced today is an effort to accelerate the development and deployment of real-world solutions to a real-world problem: methane emissions from the oil and gas sector.

Today’s White House announcement to reduce methane emissions is a welcome display of leadership on a critical environmental and energy security issue that requires both federal and state action.

With fresh precedent for industry engagement and robust data to guide cost-effective action, now is the time for industry to address the methane emissions risk.

As I see it, methane pollution from the oil and gas industry is a lot like kids and vegetables. Reducing it is good for them, but we have to have a rule that requires them to do it.