Climate Central: The Obama administration on Friday proposed new rules that would lead to a crackdown on oil and gas wells that vent or flare methane into the atmosphere on public and tribal lands.
Methane is about 35 times as potent as carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas driving climate change over the span of a century, and it's the chief component of natural gas produced in the U.S. Oil and gas companies flared or vented about 375 billion cubic feet of natural gas between 2009 and 2014, enough to supply more...