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Colin Leyden

State Regulatory & Legislative Affairs, Environmental Defense Fund

Colin Leyden is Senior Manager of State Regulatory & Legislative Affairs for Environmental Defense Fund’s Natural Gas Program. He oversees EDF’s efforts to improve environmental performance and oversight of oil and gas production activities in Texas.

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Energy

Texas should listen to its own scientific task force about methane

By Colin Leyden, June 27, 2017

Texas’ actions prove many of our state leaders are turning blind eyes to some of the biggest health and environmental risks associated with oil and gas development — fighting tooth and nail against existing protections and efforts to learn more to inform future protections.