Today, Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) sent a letter to the Department of the Interior and Bureau of Land Management on methane waste rule. The letter urges the agency to swiftly publish a new proposed rule to curtail the waste of taxpayer-owned natural gas from oil and gas leases on federal lands through a prohibition of routine venting and flaring of associated gas and establishment of a clear standard for imposing royalties on lost gas. The natural gas wasted on federal leases every year has a market value of hundreds of millions of dollars and the potential to power significant economic activity. Depriving the consumer market of this gas and taxpayers of the royalty revenue we are rightly owed on it is inexcusable.

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