The Biden administration is moving to charge oil and gas companies a new fee on methane emissions, but opponents of the rule suggest such efforts could be short-lived under incoming Republican leadership. On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a final rule that will implement the Waste Emissions Charge on large-scale emitters of methane in the oil and gas sector if they exceed set limits.

Oil and natural gas companies for the first time will have to pay a federal fee if they emit dangerous methane above certain levels under a final rule announced Tuesday by the Biden administration. The Environmental Protection Agency rule follows through on a directive from Congress included in the 2022 climate law.

The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a major climate rule tackling methane emissions through a controversial fee on oil and gas companies. The final rule was announced on Tuesday amid the United Nations’s annual Climate Change Conference in Baku,

The EPA announced a final rule to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector. The rule facilitates implementation of Congress’s directive in the

The EPA’s new methane emissions rule imposes fees on oil and gas companies to cut pollution, but critics say it will increase energy prices.