An American oil and gas industry alliance—The Environmental Partnership—is pointing to their members’ efforts to reduce emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says is up to 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
The EPA says that oil and gas production accounts for around 28 percent of U.S. methane emissions, with fermentation in animal digestive tracts, landfill gas, and coal mining also producing large quantities of the gas.
