US proposing easing rules on climate-changing oil emissions

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed revoking Obama-era regulations on climate-changing methane leaks from many oil facilities, a move that environmental groups said was meant to renounce the agency's overall legal authority to regulate the gas in the fight against global warming.

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said the proposed rule followed President Donald Trump's directions to remove "unnecessary and duplicative regulatory burdens from the oil and gas industry."
"A lot of mom and pops would have their wells shut in, elderly people with wells on their properties that could be shut down."