Center for American Progress Paper: EPA’s Methane Rule Would Lower Emissions in a Way Oil and Gas Industry Can Easily Afford

Pipes for the proposed Dakota Access oil pipeline are stacked at a staging area in Worthing, South Dakota, on May 9, 2015. Source: AP/Nati Harnik

Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 25, 2015.  Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, released a new rule to regulate methane emissions in the oil and gas industry. These standards, when implemented, would help achieve President Barack Obama’s goal of cutting methane emissions by 40 percent to 45 percent of…