WASHINGTON, Nov 2 (Reuters) – Oil and gas companies have asked the Biden administration to exempt hundreds of thousands of the nation’s smallest wells from upcoming rules requiring drillers to find and plug leaks of methane, according to industry groups, despite studies showing they emit huge amounts of the powerful greenhouse gas.The Independent Petroleum Association of America and a coalition of some 20 state drillers’ associations have asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to exclude wells producing less than 6 barrels per day from the rule, arguing that including them would be costly and inefficient, according to the IPAA and the Kansas …
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