WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. environmental regulators finalised rules requiring oil and natural gas plants to monitor and report all their greenhouse gas emissions beginning next year.
The oil and gas industries release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Combined, the industries are one of the largest human-related emitters of methane, which is about 20 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, the EPA said.
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