opening statement. oil and gas companies and the industry would like to say they've done a tremendous job cutting methane emissions on their own. in fact, just this week the western energy alliance spearheaded a letter saying, and i quote, methane emissions from oil and gas production have declined by 15% since 1990 without any federal regulations. what we've been hearing today and my friends on the other side is continually using some variation of this reduction that they say occurs. the problem is, and i repeat, the problem is is that claim is just flat out false. that is the definition of an