{"id":5755,"date":"2025-12-08T09:53:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weact.org\/?post_type=update&p=5755"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:20:21","slug":"environmental-justice-groups-push-back-against-epas-delay-of-methane-rule","status":"publish","type":"update","link":"https:\/\/weact.org\/es\/updates\/environmental-justice-groups-push-back-against-epas-delay-of-methane-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Justice Groups Push Back Against EPA\u2019s Delay of Methane Rule"},"template":"","class_list":["post-5755","update","type-update","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","update_type-press-release","focus_tax-climate-justice","focus_tax-energy-justice","focus_tax-environmental-health","person_tax-yosef-robele"],"acf":{"details":{"":null,"featured_image":5221,"update_type":[366],"focus_area":[7,8,6],"authors":[195],"abstract":""},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_hero_links","acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_hero_links":{"title":"","abstract":"","links":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Groups share outrage as Agency\u2019s final delay is a violation of its role to protect health of environmental justice communities <\/span><\/i>\r\n<\/span>\r\n<\/span>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/b>\r\n<\/span>December 8, 2025<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Contact: Ashley Sullivan, ashley.sullivan@weact.org, 1-917-837-1183<\/span>\r\n<\/span>\r\n\r\nWASHINGTON - Recently, while most were spending time with loved ones, EPA moved forward to finalize its proposal to delay compliance deadlines under the 2024 Section 111 methane rule, <\/b>despite widespread opposition from the environmental justice and broader community.<\/b><\/a> In October, GreenLatinos, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, and Climate Justice Alliance, along with 106 partner organizations submitted <\/span>formal comments<\/span> <\/a>opposing this delay which will have major consequences for vulnerable communities. The 2024 updated methane rule would have required industry polluters to significantly reduce harmful methane emissions and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), starting in 2025. The coalition urged EPA to abandon this effort, as this rule is unjustifiable, unlawful, and will have devastating consequences for frontline communities, public health, and our collective ability to confront the climate crisis.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nYosef Robele, Federal Policy Manager at WE ACT for Environmental Justice shared, <\/b>\u201cDelaying the methane rule denies communities life\u2011saving health protections, projected to prevent 1,500 premature deaths and 100,000 asthma attacks each year. The delay will have real consequences for environmental justice communities living near fossil fuel infrastructure, who already bear the worst impacts of pollution and the climate crisis. We will continue to demand accountability and push to ensure our communities receive the protections they deserve and should be guaranteed under the law.\u201d<\/span>\r\n\r\n\u201cThe EPA was created to protect our environment and our health, not to delay lifesaving protections while communities get sicker,\u201d said <\/span>Mar Zepeda Salazar, Legislative Director with Climate Justice Alliance.<\/b> \u201cMethane drives extreme heat, fuels dangerous air pollution, and worsens the climate disasters we experience every day. In frontline communities\u2013whether Indigenous, poor white, Black and Brown communities, or working families\u2013this delay means more children missing school because of asthma attacks, more parents missing work while trying to make ends meet, and more families struggling under the weight of mounting medical bills. The EPA\u2019s latest move to further delay the reduction of harmful methane emissions is unjustifiable, unlawful, and a direct betrayal of the agency\u2019s mission. Our future can\u2019t be left on the backburner while polluters' pockets are filled.\u201d<\/span>\r\n\r\n\u201cThis delay locks in more methane pollution, more toxic air, and more illness for frontline, working-class communities, while families face higher health costs, lost wages, and rising utility bills,\u201d <\/span>said Meisei Gonzalez, Climate Justice and Clean Air Advocate at GreenLatinos.<\/b>\r\n

###<\/p>\r\nAbout WE ACT for Environmental Justice\u00a0<\/b>\r\n\r\nWE ACT for Environmental Justice is a Northern Manhattan-based, membership-driven organization whose mission is to build healthy communities by ensuring that people of color and\/or low-income residents are meaningfully included in the development of sound and fair environmental health and protection policies and practices. WE ACT has offices in New York and Washington, D.C. Visit us at\u00a0weact.org<\/a>\u00a0and follow us on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>, and\u00a0Instagram<\/a>.\r\n\r\nWE ACT por Justicia Ambiental<\/b>\r\n\r\nWE ACT por la Justicia Ambiental es una organizaci\u00f3n con sede en el norte de Manhattan, impulsada por sus miembros, cuya misi\u00f3n es construir comunidades saludables garantizando la participaci\u00f3n significativa de las personas de color y\/o de bajos ingresos en el desarrollo de pol\u00edticas y pr\u00e1cticas s\u00f3lidas y justas de salud y protecci\u00f3n ambiental. WE ACT tiene oficinas en Nueva York y Washington, D.C. Vis\u00edtenos en weact.org y s\u00edganos en Facebook, Bluesky e Instagram.\r\n\r\nAbout GreenLatinos<\/b>\r\n\r\nGreenLatinos\u00a0(NOTE: GreenLatinos is ONE WORD)<\/b>\u00a0is an active comunidad of Latino\/a\/e leaders, emboldened by the power and wisdom of our culture, united to demand equity and dismantle racism, resourced to win our environmental, conservation, and climate justice battles, and driven to secure our political, economic, cultural, and environmental liberation.\r\n\r\nGreenLatinos\u00a0(NOTA: GreenLatinos es UNA PALABRA)<\/b>\u00a0es una comunidad activa de l\u00edderes latinos\/a\/e, envalentonados por el poder y la sabidur\u00eda de nuestra cultura, unidos para exigir equidad y desmantelar el racismo, con recursos para ganar nuestra justicia ambiental, batallas de conservaci\u00f3n, clim\u00e1ticas e impulsados a asegurar nuestra liberaci\u00f3n pol\u00edtica, econ\u00f3mica, cultural y ambiental.\r\n\r\nAbout Climate Justice Alliance<\/b>\r\n\r\nCJA is a growing member-based organization of nearly 100 urban and rural frontline and Indigenous communities, organizations, and supporting networks working to build a Just Transition away from the extractive economy and toward a more regenerative one. Visit our website at\u00a0climatejusticealliance.org<\/a>\u00a0and follow us on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0X<\/a>,\u00a0Instagram<\/a>, and\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>.\r\n\r\nAcerca de la Alianza para la Justicia Clim\u00e1tica (CJA, por sus siglas en ingl\u00e9s)<\/b>\r\n\r\nCJA es una organizaci\u00f3n en crecimiento con casi 100 miembros, comunidades ind\u00edgenas y de primera l\u00ednea, tanto urbanas como rurales, organizaciones y redes de apoyo que trabajan para construir una transici\u00f3n justa que se aleje de la econom\u00eda extractiva y progrese hacia una m\u00e1s regenerativa. Visite nuestro sitio web\u00a0climatejusticealliance.org<\/a>, y s\u00edganos en\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0X<\/a>,\u00a0Instagram\u00a0<\/a>y\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>.\r\n\r\n ","include_drop_cap":false}}]},"yoast_head":"\nEnvironmental Justice Groups Push Back Against EPA's Delay of Methane Rule<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"EPA finalized its proposal to delay compliance deadlines under the methane rule, despite opposition from the environmental justice and broader community.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/weact.org\/es\/updates\/environmental-justice-groups-push-back-against-epas-delay-of-methane-rule\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Environmental Justice Groups Push Back Against EPA's Delay of Methane Rule\" \/>\n<meta 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