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Emails show energy industry's quick steps on methane rule

from The New York Times via Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Emails show energy industry's quick steps on methane rule The New York Times via Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Not long after President Donald Trump's inauguration, the head of a fossil-fuels industry group requested a call with the president's transition team. The subject: Barack Obama's requirement that oil and gas companies begin collecting data on their releases of methane. That outreach, by Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, appeared to quickly yield the desired results. Three weeks after that email, the EPA officially withdrew the reporting requirement — and effectively blocked the compilation of data that would allow for new regulations to control methane, a powerful climate-warming gas. READ MORE

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