EDF Offers Mix Of Praise, Requests For EPA’s Methane Reporting Plan

A major environmental group is calling EPA’s proposed oil and gas methane reporting rule a good start, even as it plans to press for officials to further increase the use of “top-down” data from sources such as aircraft and satellites to verify emissions by oil and gas operators. Such a change could boost the tally of the sector’s overall emissions beyond the increase already expected from the plan, with such reporting playing a key role in determining companies’ payments of...