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Waste Not: Common Sense Ways to Reduce Methane Pollution from the Oil and Natural Gas Industry

Summary (Nov 2014) and report (Dec 2014) co-authored by Clean Air Task Force, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Sierra Club that show how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can cut climate warming methane pollution in half -- while dramatically reducing harmful, wasteful air pollution from the oil and gas industry at the same time -- by issuing federal standards for methane pollution based on available, low-cost technologies and practices.

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