methane

December 4, 2025

Health, environment, and community groups have filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit challenging the Trump EPA’s rushed and unlawful final rule to delay protections against methane pollution from the oil and gas industry.

November 19, 2025

Today, Senate Republicans rejected a Congressional Review Act resolution introduced by Senators Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) that would have stopped the Trump administration from delaying the implementation of critical methane pollution standards. The courts, including the United States Supreme Court, have previously stopped other efforts by industry polluters and their political allies to block the EPA’s methane standards.

November 26, 2025

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule that will delay implementation of the agency’s critical Clean Air Act protection against methane and other harmful pollution from the oil and gas industry.

August 19, 2025

A dozen health, environment and community groups are asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to overturn a Trump EPA Rule delaying the 2024 methane standards for the oil and gas industry – standards that keep dangerous pollution out of our air and reduce wasted energy from oil and gas leaks, venting and flaring.

July 31, 2025

A dozen health, environment and community groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s delay of the 2024 methane standards for the oil and gas industry – standards that keep dangerous pollution out of our air and reduce wasted energy from oil and gas leaks, venting and flaring.

July 29, 2025

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency issued an interim final rule that will delay implementation of the agency’s critical Clean Air Act protection against methane and other harmful pollution from the oil and gas industry.

June 5, 2025

The Trump administration is moving ahead with a plan to delay implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s critical Clean Air Act protections against methane and other harmful pollution from the oil and gas industry.

May 12, 2025

The House Energy and Commerce Committee released its portion of the federal budget reconciliation bill that will devastate Americans in a variety of ways, from gutting Medicaid to slashing programs that fight climate change and protect clean air and water. The legislation will be marked up in a committee meeting tomorrow. In response, Sierra Club state chapters in oil and gas producing states released statements.