A federal watchdog has found that for years, the Interior Department’s safety and enforcement branch was unaware of an oil and gas company that regularly vented and flared a potent planet-warming gas at levels exceeding the department’s own requirements.
Interior’s Office of the Inspector General found that an energy company operating in the Gulf of Mexico – which it declined to name – hid its regulatory violations from the government, resulting in the venting of millions of cubic feet of methane above the federal limit, and the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars in oil and gas royalty payments to the government.
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