Trump administration proposes scaling back methane rules on oil drilling

What happened?

1. The Biden administration finalized the methane rules in 2023 to rein in emissions from the oil and gas sector; the industry vigorously opposed them, NPR reported.
2. American Petroleum Institute vice president Dustin Meyer said the trade group looks forward to working with the administration on a more workable approach providing regulatory certainty and advancing continued emissions reductions.
3. Environmental Defense Fund associate vice president Jon Goldstein said capturing methane leaves operators with more natural gas to sell, countering the administration's cost-saving rationale.

Trump announced the Clean Air Act revision while campaigning in Lubbock, Texas, on October 27, saying it would save the industry billions in production costs, while an Environmental Defense Fund official argued captured methane is saleable gas. The 2023 rules the proposal would revise were vigorously opposed by the oil and gas industry, according to the report.

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