Nearly 40 American Gas Association (AGA) companies are participating in the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Natural Gas STAR Methane Challenge Program, through which the companies commit to tracking and reducing their factories' greenhouse gas emissions.
The companies, which serve 66 percent of U.S. natural gas customers, helped create the Natural Gas STAR program in 1993. Since the beginning of the program, the EPA said the program has reduced U.S. emissions by 46.2 billion cubic feet of emissions, alongside pipeline upgrades.
“For more than two decades, natural gas utilities have worked productively with EPA to share best practices, helping to improve distribution operations and reduce emissions," AGA Chairman Ralph LaRossa, president and chief operating officer of Public Service Electric & Gas Co. in New Jersey, said during the recent Global Methane Forum in Washington, D.C. "EPA has recognized the success of our voluntary efforts by continuing to address emissions from distribution through voluntary actions rather than regulatory mandates. We look forward to working with EPA and our members on this ambitious voluntary program.”
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