Oil and natural gas companies for the first time would have to pay a fee for methane emissions that exceed certain levels under a rule proposed Friday by the Biden administration.
Friday America s Environmental Protection Agency "proposed steep new fees on methane emissions from oil and gas facilities," reports the Washington Post, "escalating a crackdown on the fossil fuel industry s planet-warming pollution."
Methane does not linger in the atmosphere as long as carbon diox.
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A Biden administration rule issued Friday would establish new fees for methane emissions, one of the most potent drivers of climate change, under the provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act. The Methane Emissions Reduction Program, an enforcement provision in the 2022 climate law, imposes fees on excess emissions, and those fees will increase over the…