Laurie Barr, co-founder of Save Our Streams Pennsylvania, searches abandoned oil wells for pollutants as an old pumpjack stands in the Allegeny National Forest near Marienville, Pennsylvania, on Monday, June 6, 2016. Credit: Chris Goodney/Bloomberg via Getty Images The first greenhouse gas actions under the Biden administration are likely to be curbs on the climate “super-pollutant” methane, as both Congressional Democrats and the White House readied moves they can make even without help from Republicans. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) pledged Thursday to bring a resolution to the floor in April that would reverse one of the Trump administration’s final climate policy rollbacks, the lifting of requirements for oil and gas companies to monitor and fix methane leaks from wells and other infrastructure. We deliver climate news to your inbox like nobody else. Every day or once a week, our original stories and digest of the web’s top […]

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