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In what may be the final effort to fortify his energy-focused legacy, retiring Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV) on Monday advanced legislation yet again to overhaul permitting for natural gas and oil lease sales, as well as to derail the Biden administration’s pause on LNG export approvals.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is operating under a "misperception of initial production from gas wells," which "has led to a drastic overestimate of methane emissions from hydraulically fractured [fracked] natural gas wells," according to Darren Smith, environmental manager for Devon Energy Corp.