US President Joe Biden unveiled a wide-ranging plan to reduce methane emissions in his home country on the second day of the United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, where he has strived to position Washington as the global leader in combating climate change.At the centre of an array of domestic regulations previewed by the White House on Tuesday is a long-awaited rule by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to tighten methane regulations for the oil and gas sector, which Biden required the agency to create in one of his first executive orders upon taking office.The proposed rule would for the first time target reductions from existing oil and gas wells nationwide, rather than focusing only on new wells as previous regulations have done. Current rules for methane emissions from US oil and gas wells only apply to sources built or modified after 2015, leaving more than 90 percent of the nation’s nearly 900,000 well sites unregulated.
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