Instead of fighting climate change, Americans need help combating Bidenomics.

Vice President Kamala Harris pledged at a United Nations climate summit on Saturday that the United States would spend billions more to help developing nations fight and adapt to climate change, telling world leaders that “we must do more” to limit global temperature rise.

Her remarks followed an announcement by U.S. officials at the summit the same day that the federal government would, for the first time, require oil and gas producers to detect and fix leaks of methane.

It was the most ambitious move to reduce fossil fuel emissions that President Biden’s administration was expected to unveil at the summit, known as COP28. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that wafts into the atmosphere from pipelines, drill sites and storage facilities, and dangerously speeds the rate of global warming.

According to Just The News, the scheme enacts a program designed to see to it that fossil fuel producers more accurate methane emission statistics. Sounds reasonable, right? Except the problem is that the measures will be taken by so-called community monitors and there is no specific criteria as to what their qualifications should be.

Reducing carbon emissions is not a bad thing, but the devil is in the details and the EPA’s loop holes regarding community monitors could be a license for environmentalist groups or federal regulators to heavy-handedly punish the fossil fuel industry for the slightest violation. As Just The News points out, not only have fossil fuel producers enacted voluntary programs to reduce emissions but even the EPA notes that methane emissions last about 7 to 12 years, as opposed to fossil fuel emissions that can last for centuries.

Instead of trying to tackle climate change, a more productive campaign would be to reduce pollution. However, Biden’s methane leak rules are nothing more than an underhanded attack to shut down or destroy the fossil fuel industry that, in turn will make people’s lives miserable. That is why green groups, like the Oil Change International, endorse it.

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