Full Title: Mitigating Methane in Texas: Reducing Emissions, Creating Jobs, and Raising Standards
Author(s): Greg Cumpton, PhD and Christopher Agbo
Publisher(s): Texas Climate Jobs Project
Publication Date: May 17, 2023
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Description (excerpt):
This report examines the number of jobs needed in Texas to both meet the needs of new EPA regulations related to methane emissions and to more broadly address methane emissions from investigated sources. This report estimates that there is a need for a minimum of 19,478 workers to implement the proposed standards in the EPA’s new proposed methane rule and a maximum of 35,006 workers to address methane emissions more thoroughly in Texas. Reducing methane emissions from oil and gas drilling and processing would provide significant numbers of jobs to Texas, adding between 6% and 9% to the number employed in this industry in 2022.