That's it -- the last remaining policy in the BBB Act that actually restrained fossil fuels. Now the bill is exactly what Manchin wanted: a bunch of subsidies for new stuff; zero punitive policies to wind down old stuff.
https://twitter.com/JarrettRenshaw/status/1452717098061422592
Sure enough, it's another body blow to the emission reductions in the bill:
https://twitter.com/JesseJenkins/status/1452732624993079296
Worth saying: there is NO path to the US hitting its climate targets that does not involve rapidly shutting down all coal power plants & sharply reducing methane leaks. None. This isn't a subject of reasonable debate. Manchin is rendering Biden's stated target unreachable.
More on how crucial methane is to short-term climate targets here: volts.wtf/p/volts-podcas…
Maybe not dead yet? I have no idea how you can tweak a methane fee to please Manchin, who is explicitly acting to protect fossil fuels from any new costs or constraints, but ... maybe?
https://twitter.com/ella_nilsen/status/1452756945555841025
A final note: as a few people have pointed out, methane is one area where EPA has a lot of tools. There are well-established, cost-effective mitigation strategies to draw from. Tight EPA rules could compensate for this. (I'm more skeptical whether they can compensate for CEPP.)
Even final-er note: today, @EnergyInnovLLC put out some modeling specifically of the BBB methane fee. It would be responsible for 65% of the industrial-sector GHG reductions in the BBB bill. energyinnovation.org/wp-content/upl… 
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