The Trump administration is proposing to relax rules to make it easier for companies to drill for oil and gas on public lands.
The Interior Department, which oversees federal lands, said that it would propose to loosen two Biden-era regulations that sought to rein in planet-warming methane and ensure that energy companies are on the hook to clean up their used-up wells.
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