Niina H. Farah (née Heikkinen) covers regulations and federal agencies for E&E News. She has previously covered climate policy at U.S. EPA under the Trump administration, and agriculture, fisheries and biofuels, with a focus in scientific research and ecological conservation. Before joining the E&E News staff, she was a reporting fellow for Climatewire. She has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and dual bachelor's degrees in animal science (with a concentration in pre-veterinary medicine) and journalism from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
As EPA is moving forward with its rewrite of methane regulations on the oil and gas industry, the Department of Energy is taking its own look at the sector by studying the emissions of the potent greenhouse gas from the nation's low-production wells.
Environmental regulations can be both the job killers feared by conservatives and the green job generators promoted by liberals, according to a new white paper from the group Resources for the Future.
Tony Reardon, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, won re-election to a second term today.
The White House has finished its review of an EPA rule giving states more time to submit plans for controlling methane emissions from solid waste landfills.
Independent oil and gas producers want EPA to consider significantly revamping the way it regulates emissions from the sector, potentially transforming a landmark Obama-era climate rule into a regulation that may only partly or indirectly target greenhouse gases.