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EPA to hit oil and gas companies with "methane fee" for drilling waste — but will it last?

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70% Informative

New fee is intended to encourage industry to reduce emissions of methane - the primary component of natural gas - and thereby avoid paying.

Methane is a climate "super pollutant" that is far more potent in the short term than carbon dioxide.

The oil and natural gas sector is the largest industrial source of methane emissions in the United States .

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80

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English

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58

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short-lived

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