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Welcome back to another episode of oil and gas this week.

You're listening to episode 119.

What's up, Mark?

What's up, Jake?

We have been so freaking busy, but we managed to get an episode out on time this time, which is good.

In the case you wondering why Jake and I took a hiatus, we really didn't. We had some technical issues with our hosting provider for the podcast. It took a while to get it fixed. We got it fixed. And now we're back and we're in the running. And speaking of in the running, if you would like to listen to Jake and us 24 hours a day, seven days a week, we have our own radio station. Jake would throw a link in the show notes. It's really easy. Just click on it and we just rock and roll your day. Who would want to listen to us 24-7? Everybody should listen to us 24-7. Speaking of everybody, let's talk a little better on-the-road sponsors. They make our travel possible. We have a total land, the world's most advanced field land management system, literally the landman's virtual office.

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So if you're dealing with leadership and works forks transformation, reach out to Lehek Harrison. And then if you would like Jake to come speak to your trade association, your company event, your conference, schools, sales and marketing meetings, or any of that sort of stuff, reach out to Jake or I. We'll be happy to share the details. How many more speaking gigs we got lined up next semester? That's a lot now. So we have, I think we have eight lineup, eight university speaking gigs for the fall. And if you're a university out there, if you're an association like SPE or whatever in a university, we actually cut a very special deal, basically give you 50% off because we love our nation's young people. And if you have trouble finding that money internally in the school, we actually help you find a sponsor. So we make it very easy for you to get Jake and I out to come speak to your school. And we love doing that. Super excited about next semester. It's going a lot of fun. So what kind of news we got going on, Jake? All right. So first up, the Trump administration has provided details for its aggressive plan to roll back environmental regulations. We've been talking about

this for a while, and they've already been talking about some of the deregulation that the Obama

administration had put into place. I guess this time they're kind of just outlining more of a clear

plan with a little bit more clear deadlines and guidance on exactly what they're looking to do.

So what are they looking to do? So what are they looking to do?

So the EPA is planning to repeal the clean power plan, which was apparently limiting

carbon dioxide output from power plants on the grounds that it exceeds statutory authority.

It's also going to repeal former President Obama's clean water rule.

It's making, it's planning to make final delays to a handful of regulations that it plans to revise or repeal.

So standards for water pollution from power plants, methane pollution limits for landfills, and methane limits for oil and gas drilling.

The administration said it plans to publish formal proposals this month through appeal to conscientious

Obama rules, one regulating hydraulic fracturing on federal land and one regarding methane

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