re: #551 iossarian

Pollution that affects the air quality is a cost that everyone bears, even though it isn’t fully factored into energy prices or the cost of doing business downstream. Energy companies say that it’s too costly to capture the flared gases - yet you’ve got municipal sewage systems like in NYC that are recapturing methane and other gases from sewage systems and landfills to sell or utilize for mitigating energy consumption for those facilities instead of flaring them off with no energy recapture.

They have a highly valued commodity that they’re squandering because they can’t get it to market. Make it easier to get it to market - but penalize those who don’t with higher penalties.