Whitehouse slams API’s ‘ever-shifting’ methane stance

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), the primary sponsor of a proposed methane emissions fee on the oil and gas sector under consideration for Democrats’ sweeping budget reconciliation bill, is slamming the industry’s response to the plan as emblematic of “contradictory positioning” on methane policy. Specifically, the senator is criticizing a recent letter to EPA spearheaded by the American Petroleum Institute (API) opposing his methane fee plan, with the group joined by around 100 oil and gas and local business groups to...