Senate Aims to Roll Back Trump’s Methane Emissions Rule (1)

The Senate will take up a resolution in April to reinstate an Obama-era rule limiting harmful methane emissions from oil and gas drilling, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Thursday.

Former President Donald Trump last year reversed former President Barack Obama’s 2016 methane rule, saying it was a burden on industry. Trump’s elimination of Obama’s curbs on methane emissions from new oil and gas wells was seen as a blow to efforts to address climate change.

“The Senate will take up a Congressional Review Act measure to reinstate the common sense regulation of methane emissions to fight climate change,” Schumer ...