March 3: "President Trump proposes to chop EPA budget by 25%, hitting areas like toxic cleanups and pollution law enforcement." That announcement of a scale-back of the Environmental Protection Agency's role of protecting the environment also came with a kicker: the agency was also "withdrawing an Obama-era request that oil and natural gas companies provide information on methane emissions at oil and gas operations." In other words, who needs to know how much methane is being pumped into the environment? Methane is just air, right?