The Biden administration is launching an assault on methane Tuesday, advancing initiatives across government — and the globe — to keep the potent heat-trapping gas from escaping landfills, oil wells and farms. Measures being announced Tuesday seek to deploy at least five Cabinet-level agencies. For instance, the Environmental Protection Agency is releasing a long-awaited proposal to require leaks in oil and gas wells to be plugged. The Agriculture Department will announce a program encouraging farmers to harness and sell methane. Pipeline regulators will expand their oversight of natural gas lines. And President Joe Biden, who is in Glasgow, Scotland, for the United Nations COP26 conference on climate change, will also announce that more than 90 nations have signed a joint U.S.- European Union pledge to collectively reduce global methane emissions 30% below 2020 levels by 2030. Brazil, a major source of methane emissions, announced Monday that it was joining […]