"The Trump administration undertook an early step Monday in what is expected to be a significant rollback of a Biden-era rule restricting methane emissions from oil and gas production.
Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would revisit the methane rule, arguing that it was “throttling the oil and gas industry.”
On Monday, the EPA published a rule that takes aim at a portion of the Biden administration one. The agency said it was also developing another proposal to further amend the rule, which required drillers to take steps to cut emissions of planet-heating methane.
Monday’s step gives oil and gas producers more time to participate in emergency flaring — the practice of burning off natural gas that co-occurs with oil during oil production."
