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Interior Department to delay Obama methane rule two years

By Josh Siegel
Published December 7, 2017 6:56pm ET
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Interior Department to delay Obama methane rule two years
The delay comes after energy companies and a major industry group recently announced programs to voluntarily reduce emissions of methane. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File) | Keith Srakocic

The Trump administration will announce a two-year delay in implementing a 2016 Obama-era rule intended to curb methane emissions from natural gas drilling on public lands.

The Republican-controlled Senate failed in May to repeal the rule, so the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management is taking action itself, according to a filing in the Federal Register.

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