Video of the Chevron Hayhurst Well Site in New Mexico, showing odorless methane leaks not visible to the human eye.
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"Inaction is not an option this Earth Day" – Read the opinion piece by United Methodist Women climate justice lead Elizabeth Lee on thehill.com.
Our Focus on Chevron
Chevron Corporation is the second biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world. Chevron’s footprint is massive, and its methane emissions are impacting people across the globe. Chevron is one of the top 10 producers of natural gas globally, and its production is only increasing. In the U.S. alone, Chevron is planning to increase its oil and gas production from 650,000 to 900,000 barrels a day by 2023. Its operations are in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and California. Chevron operations internationally exist in Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, Eurasia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Whether in the U.S. or around the world, the lives of pregnant women, children, communities of color and vulnerable communities are disproportionately at risk. Chevron also opposes current common-sense federal methane regulations. This is notable, as industry peers like Shell, BP, Exxon and Equinor have already made strong public statements supporting direct regulation of methane.
Our Work So Far
In May 2018 we delivered over 1,800 letters to Chevron and met with Chevron’s staff, urging Chevron to reduce methane emissions, sign onto the “Reducing Methane Emissions Across the Natural Gas Value Chain” Guiding Principles” and direct more capital allocations to renewable energy. Since December we sent over a thousand additional follow up letters, urging Chevron to oppose the Environmental Protection Agency’s current proposal to dismantle U.S. federal methane regulations. Since that initial May meeting, Chevron has:
- Signed on to the “Reducing Methane Emissions Across the Natural Gas Value Chain” Guiding Principles.
- Joined its peers in setting methane reduction targets.
- Recently wrote back to United Methodist Women noting that Chevron has set a methane target that is linked to executive compensation, taking measures to reduce emissions through monitoring. Notable in its response was the lack of response to our request that Chevron support common-sense methane regulations.