欧盟决定推迟实施甲烷监管，环保组织认为这对消费者帮助不大。欧洲官员本周决定推迟该规则的实施，该规则原定于2027年1月生效，旨在加强能源公司甲烷排放的报告要求，此举是在面对行业利益相关者压力和法国领导层认为该措施将进一步推高能源价格后做出的。
The EU’s decision to delay the implementation of its methane regulations won’t help consumers much, environmental groups argued.
然而，Carbon Limits报告发现，合规成本将占生产价值的0.03%-0.6%。环境防卫基金能源政策主管Léa Pilsner告诉Semafor：“我们并不是说[该规则]对价格没有任何影响。我们是说，它并未导致您所看到的那些巨大的[成本]负担，因此也无法解决它们。”
European officials decided this week to delay the regulation — which was meant to come into effect in January 2027 to introduce stronger reporting requirements for energy companies’ methane emissions — after facing pressure from industry stakeholders and French leadership, who argued it would further drive up energy prices.
该立法还将设定甲烷排放强度标准的截止日期，针对的是进口燃料，她说：“这才是气候效益真正显现的地方。”
However, a Carbon Limits report found that compliance would cost between 0.03-0.6% of production value. “We’re not saying [the regulation] has no impact [on prices]. We’re saying that it is not driving any of these massive [cost] burdens you’re seeing, and therefore can’t solve [them] either,” Léa Pilsner, the Environmental Defense Fund’s energy policy director, told Semafor. The legislation also shifts the deadline for setting intensity standards for methane emissions from imported fuel, “which is really where you start seeing the benefits when it comes to the climate,” she added.