{"id":1854,"date":"2022-12-08T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-whitehouse-introduce-legislation-to-monitor-and-track-methane-emissions\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:04:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:04:40","slug":"merkley-whitehouse-introduce-legislation-to-monitor-and-track-methane-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-whitehouse-introduce-legislation-to-monitor-and-track-methane-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley y la Casa Blanca presentan legislaci\u00f3n para monitorear y rastrear las emisiones de metano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph\">Washington, DC \u2013 El Senador de EE. UU. de Oreg\u00f3n, Jeff Merkley, junto con el Senador Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), presentaron hoy el <i>Ley de Investigaci\u00f3n de Emisiones de Metano de 2022, <\/i>un proyecto de ley destinado a facultar a la Agencia de Protecci\u00f3n Ambiental (EPA) para medir y cuantificar las emisiones de metano de las operaciones nacionales de petr\u00f3leo y gas.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">\u201cA corto plazo, el metano es al menos 80 veces m\u00e1s potente que el di\u00f3xido de carbono para calentar nuestro planeta y es uno de los peores delincuentes cuando se trata de contribuir al calentamiento global que amenaza la econom\u00eda y el modo de vida de nuestra naci\u00f3n\u201d. <b>dijo el senador Merkley.<\/b> \u201cLa infraestructura de petr\u00f3leo y gas existente est\u00e1 filtrando una enorme cantidad de metano al medio ambiente, y debemos detener esas fugas tanto para reducir nuestra contaminaci\u00f3n como para demostrar un liderazgo clim\u00e1tico audaz a nivel internacional. El <i>Ley de Investigaci\u00f3n de Emisiones de Metano<\/i> es un paso esencial para tomar medidas en\u00e9rgicas para combatir los impactos desastrosos de la contaminaci\u00f3n por metano de la industria del petr\u00f3leo y el gas\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Si vamos a llevar al planeta a la seguridad en la carrera contra el cambio clim\u00e1tico, tenemos que actuar r\u00e1pidamente para frenar las emisiones de metano que arrojan las instalaciones de petr\u00f3leo y gas&quot;. <b>dijo el senador Whitehouse<\/b>. \u201cLa Ley de Investigaci\u00f3n de Emisiones de Metano ayudar\u00eda a determinar la verdadera escala de las emisiones de metano, que el gobierno federal ha subestimado durante a\u00f1os. La EPA estar\u00e1 mejor posicionada para eliminar las fuentes de fugas de metano con datos m\u00e1s precisos a mano\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">Las operaciones del sector de petr\u00f3leo y gas son una fuente importante de emisiones de metano en los Estados Unidos. Comprender adecuadamente la escala y las caracter\u00edsticas de las emisiones de metano del petr\u00f3leo y el gas es una base cient\u00edfica crucial para desarrollar pol\u00edticas efectivas de reducci\u00f3n de emisiones. Desafortunadamente, existen brechas de datos significativas con respecto a las emisiones de metano del petr\u00f3leo y el gas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">El<b> <\/b><i>Ley de Investigaci\u00f3n de Emisiones de Metano de 2022 <\/i>ordenar\u00eda a la EPA que mida y cuantifique las emisiones de metano de regiones espec\u00edficas productoras de petr\u00f3leo y gas para respaldar esta limitaci\u00f3n. El proyecto de ley crear\u00eda un estudio piloto como un programa \u00fanico inicial, al tiempo que requiere que la agencia considere c\u00f3mo las lecciones del piloto podr\u00edan usarse para informar un programa recurrente a escala nacional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">El <i>Ley de Investigaci\u00f3n de Emisiones de Metano de 2022 <\/i>har\u00eda:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"paragraph\">Ordenar a la EPA que realice un estudio piloto de dos a\u00f1os basado en mediciones para cuantificar las emisiones de metano de la infraestructura de petr\u00f3leo y gas en dos grandes regiones productoras de petr\u00f3leo y gas en los Estados Unidos.<\/li>\n<li class=\"paragraph\">Alentar a la EPA a utilizar tecnolog\u00edas innovadoras de medici\u00f3n y cuantificaci\u00f3n de metano durante la implementaci\u00f3n del estudio piloto.<\/li>\n<li class=\"paragraph\">Exigir a la EPA que presente un informe al Congreso sobre la conclusi\u00f3n del estudio piloto que incluya:<\/li>\n<ul type=\"circle\">\n<li class=\"paragraph\">Los resultados del estudio piloto.<\/li>\n<li class=\"paragraph\">Un an\u00e1lisis de c\u00f3mo se podr\u00eda utilizar el estudio piloto para respaldar el desarrollo de un programa de investigaci\u00f3n de medici\u00f3n y cuantificaci\u00f3n de metano comparable que abarque todas las principales regiones productoras de petr\u00f3leo y gas en los Estados Unidos de manera recurrente.<\/li>\n<li class=\"paragraph\">Una evaluaci\u00f3n de c\u00f3mo la agencia podr\u00eda utilizar las actividades de medici\u00f3n y cuantificaci\u00f3n de metano para mejorar la calidad de los datos de metano del sector del petr\u00f3leo y el gas dentro de los inventarios federales de gases de efecto invernadero.<\/li>\n<li class=\"paragraph\">Una descripci\u00f3n de cualquier brecha de investigaci\u00f3n identificada durante el curso del estudio piloto.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">Este proyecto de ley es un complemento del Senado para HR 8991, presentado por la presidenta del Comit\u00e9 de Ciencia, Espacio y Tecnolog\u00eda de la C\u00e1mara de Representantes, Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX-30).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">El texto de la factura se puede encontrar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/imo\/media\/doc\/methane_emissions_research_act_bill_text.pdf\/\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">Se puede encontrar un resumen de la factura <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/imo\/media\/doc\/methane_emissions_research_act_summary.pdf\/\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\" align=\"center\">###<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &ndash; Oregon&rsquo;s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, along with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), today introduced the Methane Emissions Research Act of 2022, a bill intended to empower the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to measure and quantify methane emissions from domestic oil and gas operations. &ldquo;In the short term, methane is at least 80 times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Merkley, Whitehouse Introduce Legislation to Monitor and Track Methane Emissions - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-whitehouse-introduce-legislation-to-monitor-and-track-methane-emissions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merkley, Whitehouse Introduce Legislation to Monitor and Track Methane Emissions - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Washington, D.C. &ndash; 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