The Security, Energy and Environment Agency (ASEA) and Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) signed a collaboration agreement to strengthen environmental protection in the hydrocarbons sector, with joint emission control actions and environmental surveillance.
The agreement includes the use of mobile laboratories, training programs, workshops and the exchange of technical and scientific information, the Ministry of Energy detailed in a statement.
The agreement is framed in Commitment 93 of President Claudia Sheinbaum to reduce air pollution and in objective 4.3 of the National Development Plan 2025-2030.
“With the firm we advance towards this cleaner and more sustainable Mexico we want,” said the Secretary of Energy, Luz Elena González Escobar.
He declared that this coordination effort reflects the will of all institutions of the State to work in collaboration for the protection of the environment in the center of public policies, not as an isolated objective, but as a guiding principle of the
Everyday activities in all sectors, of which, one of the most significant in terms of its contribution, is the energy sector.
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The Undersecretary of Biodiversity and Environmental Restoration of Semarnat, Marina Robles García, highlighted the coordinated work between the Secretariats of Energy and Environment and Natural Resources, thanks to which progress is made in the search for a more prosperous and productive country, but also more just and committed to the environment and the health of people.
The director of Pemex, Víctor Rodríguez Padilla, said that “this agreement specifies the best of our technical, scientific and operational capacity.”
He added that high range tools, mobile laboratories that will carry the measurement and control directly to the point of operation, training programs that will multiply knowledge and the experience of the oil staff.
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He hoped that the systematic exchange of technical and industrial information will strengthen emission surveillance, optimize processes and eliminate practices that put people’s health at risk or the integrity of ecosystems.
The executive director of the ASEA, Armando Ocampo Zambrano, informed that the agency will strengthen the supervision and faculties of sanction to those who fail to comply with their environmental obligations.
