On August 18, 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, proposed “new source performance standards” to directly regulate methane emissions from the oil and gas sector. Methane is a greenhouse gas that is even more potent than carbon dioxide. Over the first 20 years after being released into the atmosphere, methane is more than 80 times as effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. Over 100 years, methane remains 28 times more powerful.
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