Climate Central: The Obama administration announced new rules on Thursday aimed at cutting methane emissions from new oil and gas wells and fracking operations.
The rules also will require energy companies to provide pollution information to the Environmental Protection Agency so it can regulate methane emissions from existing oil and gas wells.
Oil wells in California.
Methane warms the climate 86 times as much as carbon dioxide over a period of 20 years before breaking down in the atmosphere. Methane leaking...