The WSJ has an article on the Administration's plans to address methane emissions as part of its strategy to address global warming: "The White House move is part of President Barack Obama's broader plan announced last June to tackle climate change. The administration's methane strategy reflects a reluctance to commit right now to new federal regulations targeting the natural-gas industry, which could be politically unpopular. New rules could also contradict the administration's rhetoric and actions supporting natural gas in the past few years, including the Energy Department's conditional approval earlier this week of the seventh U.S. project to export gas. *** Reaction from oil and natural-gas companies was muted, while environmentalists cheered the news."
For more, see here (Climate Action Plan: Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions).