Agriculture, just as big a source of methane, isn’t getting the same tough treatment.
The Biden administration said it would spend more money to research cattle diets and expand gas-capturing manure-disposal systems for farmers to voluntarily reduce methane emissions, after supporting more than $200 million in such projects last year.
But it hasn’t proposed any new air-pollution regulations targeting the agricultural sources.
“We’re taking a look,” Environmental Protection Agency administrator
Michael Regan
said when asked recently about regulating methane from agricultural sources. “You know, I can’t promise that we’re going to have anything this year, but it’s on the menu.”
Beef and dairy cattle, along with pigs and other farm animals, contribute roughly 27% of methane emissions in the…
