Current rules for methane emissions from U.S. oil and gas wells only apply to sources that were

-meaning that cutting methane emissions can have a rapid impact in reining in global warming. The Global

. Reducing the amount of methane seeping into the air would quickly translate into a slowdown of

“ This isn’t just something we have to do to protect the environment and future.... In 2014, for instance, more than 200 governments, companies and civil society organizations signed the New York Declaration on Forests, which called for halving the rate of deforestation by 2020 and halting it by 2030.... They include a range of new proposals by the Environmental Protection Agency to halt leaks from aging oil and gas wells and to better monitor and capture the planet-heating gas before it escap

31. The pledge will now cover 60% of global GDP and 30% of global methane emissions.... For

PARIS--The International Energy Agency said Wednesday that emissions of planet-warming methane from

emissions of the planet-warming gas methane by around a third by the end of this decade and are

-led effort to slash methane emissions 30% by 2030, giving the emerging global partnership momentum

to slash methane emissions 30 per cent by 2030 from 2020 levels, giving the emerging global

The EPA estimates it would cut 41 million tons of methane emissions from 2023 to 2035--more than