President Joe Biden speaking at the United Nations’ Climate Summit this week said his administration will heavily regulate methane. That’s a potent greenhouse gas that can warm the atmosphere 80 times as fast on carbon dioxide in the short term. He also joined other nations in pledging to curb global emissions of methane by 30 percent by 2030. Just what effect that will have on possibly stricter regulations on livestock producers isn’t yet known. That’s according to Dave Preisler CEO of Minnesota Pork.

He says pork producers have already taken steps to reduce methane, chiefly by storing manure in concrete containers underneath hog buildings. Preisler says commercial fertilizer is produced using methane and many producers avoid that by applying manure on the land which benefits the environment and reduces costs.

Preisler says the pork industry is basing its work on sound science and measuring just what impact emissions are having, if they’re even there and the best way to deal with them.

Preisler adds that oil and gas companies have more to worry about when it comes to increasing regulation on methane emissions. He says pigs don’t have a lot of methane emissions in general anyway.