The EPA Is About to Hand Oil and Gas Companies a Huge Methane-Related Gift

Source Scout · Mother Jones reports: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin (center) and Energy Secretary Chris Wright (left) listen as President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Syracuse, New York, on October 9, 2026. Mandel NGAN/AFP/Getty Last week, less than a month after rolling back power plant pollution standards , Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin addressed an audience of oil and gas executives at the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association’s annual meeting in Santa Fe. The environmental agency was “within days,” he told them, of releasing the draft reconsideration of a major Biden-era oil and gas methane rule.

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