Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore), chair of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees EPA, has called on EPA Administrator Michael Regan to increase monitoring of methane emissions from oil and gas wells. Despite receiving funding under President Joe Biden’s capstone climate law to track the pollutant, he said the agency has not done so far. Merkie called this “unacceptable” and asked for a real program using the funds already provided. Regan responded that the agency takes methane seriously and is developing a data system to identify “super emitters”

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