Feelings of ‘despair’: Climate change activists testify against EPA plans to roll back methane emissions standards

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Environmentalists and Native American leaders from across the U.S. traveled to Dallas for a public hearing on Trump’s proposal, which would reverse rules to curb a potent greenhouse gas.

"Mara" Diaz, who moved to Arizona from Puerto Rico two years ago, testified at the EPA public hearing on the proposed reversal of methane emission standards on Oct. 17, 2019 in Dallas, Texas.
“Mara” Diaz, who moved to Arizona from Puerto Rico two years ago, testified at the EPA public hearing on the proposed reversal of methane emission standards on Oct. 17, 2019 in Dallas, Texas.(Robert W. Hart / Special Contributor)

By Hayat Norimine

3:53 PM on Oct 17, 2019

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2019/10/17/feelings-of-despair-climate-change-activists-testify-against-epa-plans-to-roll-back-methane-emissions-standards/

Myrelis “Mara” Diaz never expected to move to the U.S. mainland. That wasn’t in her plans.

But on Sept. 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria raged through Puerto Rico and tore up her San Juan apartment complex, leaving residents without running water. An AmeriCorps worker, Diaz spent the following days lugging heavy jugs of water up the stairs for her neighbors. She’d come home without food for herself. One day on a water delivery…

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