Obamas Initiative

Today the White hOuse released a directive addressing methane gas emissions. The goal of the directive is to keep energy companies at bay while being ecologically responsible. With the administrations push for natural gas, due to the fact that it is cleaner than fossil fuels though they produce large emissions of methane gas.  Now green parties are calling for caps on methane admissions. Methane admissions being important to keep in check for they are more harmful than co2 and are a major green house gas. The White house concluded that studies about methane in correlation to natural gas techniques such as fraking will be studied and within the fall the EPA will make a decision as to weather or not to continue with increasingly hard caps put on methane admissions.

Analysis:
Currently there are studies that show that the methane gas emissions are already exceeding the ecological load in which the earth can sustain. With current global warming trends the need for alternative rule socks are necessary. Though Natural gas seems as though it is the cleaner option the amount of methane it released into the environment is almost counterproductive. The directive realized though seems that it is pushing things along the right direction is favoring energy companies.The response of the EPA would not be able to be in acted until 2016 at the latest.