{"id":5442,"date":"2025-10-01T13:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/?p=5442"},"modified":"2025-10-01T13:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:20:41","slug":"environmental-justice-leaders-submit-joint-opposition-to-epas-methane-rule-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/environmental-justice-leaders-submit-joint-opposition-to-epas-methane-rule-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Justice Leaders Submit Joint Opposition to EPA\u2019s Methane Rule Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"

GreenLatinos, WE ACT, Climate Justice Alliance, and 106 EJ and Tribal Organizations File Comment Letter Against EPA\u2019s Interim Final Rule Extending Section 111 Methane Deadlines<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington DC<\/strong> \u2014 Today, GreenLatinos, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, and the Climate Justice Alliance<\/strong>, together with 106 partner organizations \u2014 primarily environmental justice and Tribal organizations \u2014<\/strong> submitted formal comments <\/a>opposing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s (EPA) proposal to delay compliance deadlines under the Section 111 Methane Rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The coalition\u2019s letter urges EPA to abandon the delay, warning that the rule is unjustifiable, unlawful, and would have devastating consequences for frontline communities, public health, and our collective ability to confront the climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMethane is a super-pollutant more than 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period, and delaying protections means millions of tons of methane and toxic co-pollutants will continue poisoning our air,\u201d said Meisei Gonzalez, Climate Justice and Clean Air Advocate with GreenLatinos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black, Latino, Indigenous, and low-income communities live closest to oil and gas infrastructure, breathe higher levels of air pollution, and face disproportionate health risks, including asthma, cancer, and premature death. EPA\u2019s own data show that every year of delay could lead to thousands of avoidable asthma attacks, premature deaths, and billions in health costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yosef Robele, Federal Policy Manager at WE ACT for Environmental Justice, shared, <\/strong>\u201cWith this action, along with other attempted rollbacks, EPA is failing to fulfill its mission of protecting human health and the environment. There are tangible human costs to these actions. The methane standards are projected to prevent 1,500 premature deaths and 100,000 asthma attacks every single year. Each year of delay is another year that communities must endure the public health and environmental burdens from oil and gas pollution. Compounding this, our communities are on the frontline of an intensifying climate crisis, further necessitating the expedient deployment and enforcement of this emission-cutting regulation. The EPA, with this delay, continues to pursue a polluter-first agenda, putting short-term profits over our communities as well as the public\u2019s health and interests. \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The coalition emphasizes that methane mitigation is already technologically feasible and economically beneficial, creating thousands of good-paying jobs across the country. Major oil and gas companies have publicly supported strong methane regulation, making the EPA\u2019s rationale for delay even weaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe EPA was created to protect our environment and our health, not to delay lifesaving protections while communities get sicker,\u201d said Mar Zepeda Salazar, Legislative Director with Climate Justice Alliance.<\/strong> \u201cMethane drives extreme heat, fuels dangerous air pollution, and worsens the climate disasters we experience every day. In frontline communities\u2013whether Indigenous, poor white, Black, and Brown communities, or working families\u2013this delay means more children missing school because of asthma attacks, more parents missing work while trying to make ends meet, and more families struggling under the weight of mounting medical bills. EPA\u2019s proposal is unjustifiable, unlawful, and a direct betrayal of the agency\u2019s mission. Our future can\u2019t be left on the back burner while polluters' pockets are filled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The groups are calling on EPA to immediately enforce the full and timely implementation of the 2024 methane standards<\/strong>, reinstate compliance deadlines for new and existing oil and gas facilities, and fully launch the Super Emitter program to detect and reduce major leaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Acerca de GreenLatinos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GreenLatinos (NOTA: GreenLatinos es UNA PALABRA)<\/strong> es una comunidad activa de l\u00edderes latinos, envalentonados por el poder y la sabidur\u00eda de nuestra cultura, unidos para exigir equidad y desmantelar el racismo, con recursos para ganar nuestras batallas ambientales, de conservaci\u00f3n y de justicia clim\u00e1tica, y motivados para asegurar nuestras pol\u00edticas, Liberaci\u00f3n econ\u00f3mica, cultural y ambiental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acerca de ACTUAMOS por la Justicia Ambiental <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WE ACT for Environmental Justice is a Northern Manhattan-based, membership-driven organization whose mission is to build healthy communities by ensuring that people of color and\/or low-income residents are meaningfully included in the development of sound and fair environmental health and protection policies and practices. WE ACT has offices in New York and Washington, D.C. Visit us at weact.org<\/a> y s\u00edguenos en Facebook<\/a>, Bluesky<\/a>, y Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Climate Justice Alliance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CJA is a growing member-based organization of nearly 100 urban and rural frontline and Indigenous communities, organizations, and supporting networks working to build a Just Transition away from the extractive economy and toward a more regenerative one. Visit our website at climatejusticealliance.org<\/a> y s\u00edguenos en Facebook<\/a>, X<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, y Bluesky<\/a>.
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