Calling for an End to Routine Flaring Nationwide

The statement highlights the health and environmental impacts of methane pollution and routine flaring in Texas's Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale regions. It criticizes the EPA for rolling back methane safeguards and the Railroad Commission of Texas for approving all 27,000 venting and flaring requests over seven years. The authors demand an end to routine flaring by 2025 to mitigate risks such as preterm births and childhood asthma in disproportionately affected communities of color.

• Methane pollution from oil and gas facilities contributes to global warming and ground-level ozone, and is linked to cancer and aggravated respiratory conditions like asthma.
• In the Eagle Ford Shale, women exposed to 10 or more flares during pregnancy had a 50 percent higher risk of preterm birth, a burden falling entirely on Latinx mothers.
• Midland County was reported in 2015 to have the fifth-highest incidence in the U.S. of childhood asthma attacks related to oil and gas air pollution.
• The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) has failed to reduce venting and flaring, having not denied a single one of the 27,000 requests received in the last seven years.
• Texas is responsible for the majority of vented and flared gas in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

APA

Rhyne, N., & Palacios, V. (2020). Calling for an End to Routine Flaring Nationwide. GreenLatinos. https://www.greenlatinos.org/calling-for-an-end-to-routine-flaring-nationwide/

Chicago

Rhyne, Neta, and Virginia Palacios. Calling for an End to Routine Flaring Nationwide. GreenLatinos, 2020. https://www.greenlatinos.org/calling-for-an-end-to-routine-flaring-nationwide/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{rhyne2020calling, author = {Rhyne, Neta and Palacios, Virginia}, title = {{Calling for an End to Routine Flaring Nationwide}}, publisher = {GreenLatinos}, year = {2020}, month = oct, url = {https://www.greenlatinos.org/calling-for-an-end-to-routine-flaring-nationwide/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }