or rule that prevents emissions of methane and extremely potent greenhouse gas by oil and gas corporations operating on federal lands the bureau of land management b.l.m. within the interior department has estimated that the rule could prevent one hundred eighty thousand tons of methane emissions from going into the atmosphere every year that reduction in greenhouse pollution would have the same effect as taking nine hundred fifty thousand cars off the road methane is twenty five times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas and about a third of all u.s. methane emissions are caused by oil and gas operations interior first two attempts to repeal face continue court challenges the latest attempt will be subject to a sixty day comment period after publication in what is called the federal register where we can all read about it. and stock markets in asia rallied today as some sense of stability returned after last week's market meltdown while tokyo hong kong and shanghai led a strong advance across asia and vester has continued to be anxious especially had a key us inflation data to be released wednesday some of the some of those concerned

repeal a rule that prevents emissions of methane an extremely potent greenhouse gas by oil and gas corporations operating on federal lands the bureau of land management b.l.m. within the interior department has estimated that the rule could prevent one hundred eighty thousand tons of methane emissions from going into the atmosphere every year that reduction in greenhouse pollution would have the same effect as taking nine hundred fifty thousand cars off the road methane is twenty five times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas and about a third of all u.s. methane emissions are caused by oil and gas operations interior first two attempts to repeal face continued court challenges the latest attempt will be subject to a sixty day comment period after publication in what is called the federal register where we can all read about it. and stock markets in asia rallied today as some sense of stability returned after last week's market meltdown while tokyo hong kong and shanghai led a strong advance across asia investors continued to be anxious especially head of key u.s. inflation data to be released wednesday some of the some of those concerned

repeal a rule that prevents emissions of methane an extremely potent greenhouse gas by oil and gas corporations operating on federal lands the bureau of land management b.l.m. within the interior department has estimated that the rule could prevent one hundred eighty thousand ton.

of federal mineral estate located underground. not just land that is held by the bureau of land management in colorado, nevada. they hold even more when it comes to our mineral holdings. but the b.l.m. is also responsible for administering 225 million acres of federal surface lands and nearly all of that, as this map points out, is in the 11 western most states in alas -- and alaska in this country. historically, local field offices have been diligent and effective managers of the public land for multiple use as they are charged to do so under the federal land policy and management anxiety. when i meet with county commissioners and others in the west, they all talk about the good relationship they have with their field offices and the good decisions that they're able to reach with those field offices. unfortunately, in recent years, directives and management coming from the b.l.m. headquarters in washington, long ways away from the publicly held lands out west, the 200-plus million acres of federal land held by the b.l.m. thousands of miles away from washington, d.c., these decisions coming out of washington, d.c. have favored deep pocketed, radical special interests over field off