It's Time for Obama to Tighten Rules on Gas Leaks - by Andrew C. Revkin, NY Times

Environmental groups with varied stances on the merits of natural gas and the controversial extraction method best known as fracking have endorsed a set of cost-effective steps the Obama administration could take to stanch gas leaks from wells and other gas and oil facilities.  Such emissions contribute to harmful local air pollution and because the main constituent of natural gas is heat-trapping methane; global warming.

The steps are laid out in Waste Not: Common Sense Ways to Reduce Methane Pollution from the Oil and Natural Gas Industry, the summary of a forthcoming report aimed at shaping new standards for methane pollution that the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to issue later this year.

The report summary was prepared by the Clean Air Task Force, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Sierra Club, and has been endorsed by the Environmental Defense Fund, Earthworks and Earth Justice.

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