Environmentalists triumph as Senate upholds drilling rule


Environmentalists triumph as Senate upholds drilling rule


WASHINGTON (AP) — Environmentalists notched a rare win in the Republican-led Senate on Wednesday as a GOP effort to reverse an Obama-era rule restricting harmful methane emissions unexpectedly failed.

The 51-49 vote against the repeal measure was a blow to the fossil-fuel industry and groups linked to the conservative Koch Brothers, which had waged a public campaign to overturn the Interior Department rule....

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Ken Notes: Too close for comfort... We need to develop a strategy for using the methane close to the source to make it cost effective...

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