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🗞️ Story file #1049

Trump announces rollback of Biden-era methane rules

Oct 27, 10 PM ET to Oct 28, 5 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Oct 27, 10 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
  2. Oct 27, 11 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
  3. Oct 28, 1 AM ETpeak: on 13 front pages
  4. Oct 28, 2 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
  5. Oct 28, 5 AM ETretold online by 27 people

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 282 AM4 AM613leftcenterrightnot rated
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 27, 10 PM to Oct 28, 5 AM ET (peak 13), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated
Oct 27, 8 PM10 PMOct 282 AM4 AMThe HillThe HillThe Hill, Oct 27, 6:00 PM ET: Trump easing methane rules for oil and gasThe Daily CallerThe Daily CallerThe Daily Caller, Oct 27, 6:00 PM ET: Trump Wants To Pull The Plug On Biden’s Methane Leak PatrolReutersReutersReuters, Oct 27, 6:00 PM ET: Trump to roll back methane rules in latest Texas campaign pushNBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Oct 27, 10:00 PM ET: Trump says he’ll roll back Biden-era methane rules for oil and gas companiesThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch Times, Oct 27, 10:00 PM ET: Trump Announces EPA Will Roll Back Biden-Era Methane Regulations on Oil and Gas ProducersThe Epoch Times, Oct 27, 11:00 PM ET: Trump Announces Termination of Biden-Era Methane Regulations on Oil and Gas ProducersThe Epoch Times, Oct 28, 1:00 AM ET: Trump Announces EPA Roll Back of Biden-Era Emissions Restrictions on Oil and Gas ProducersThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 27, 10:00 PM ET: Trump says government to ‘terminate’ Biden-era methane emissions rulesThe Washington PostThe Washington PostThe Washington Post, Oct 27, 10:00 PM ET: Trump announces relaxed rules on oil firms’ methane leaksThe Washington SunThe Washington SunThe Washington Sun, Oct 27, 10:00 PM ET: Trump Unveils Plan to Relax Methane Emission Restrictions for Oil CompaniesNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 27, 10:00 PM ET: Trump Announces Rollback of Biden Methane RuleJust the NewsJust the NewsJust the News, Oct 27, 11:00 PM ET: Trump touts methane deregulation plan to help small operators 'crushed' by BidenAPAPAP, Oct 27, 11:00 PM ET: Trump says he’s ending restrictions on climate-warming methane from oil drillingThe Washington TimesThe Washington TimesThe Washington Times, Oct 28, 12:00 AM ET: Trump to suspend Biden-era methane ruleHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 28, 1:00 AM ET: Trump Admin To End Rule Restricting Climate-Warming Emissions From Oil Drilling📺 TVBBC News, 11:24 PM ET: Trump to relax rules on oil firms methane leaksBBC News, 12:17 AM ET: Trump to relax rules on oil firms methane leaksBBC News, 12:18 AM ET: Trump to relax rules on oil firms methane leaksBBC News, 1:22 AM ET: Trump rolls back methane emission curbsBBC News, 1:23 AM ET: Trump rolls back methane emission curbs📻 radioNPR News Now, Oct 28, 2:10 AM ET: story 2 of 8🧶 online🧶found retold online (the day's report)
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 quoted: “crushed” “terminate”

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • The Epoch Times (3 wordings): “Trump Announces EPA Will Roll Back Biden-Era Methane Regulations on Oil and Gas Producers” → “Trump Announces EPA Roll Back of Biden-Era Emissions Restrictions on Oil and Gas Producers”
Every outlet's first headline (13), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

BBC News3 min
  • Trump to relax rules on oil firms methane leaks BBC News, 86 s
  • Trump rolls back methane emission curbs BBC News, 82 s

📻 On the radio

  • NPR News Now, Oct 28, 2:10 AM ET: story 2 of 8

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

  • Donald Trump is proposing to roll back methane emission rules for oil and gas production. Oct 28: told by 27 people

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ names in it: Donald Trump Texas Biden administration Oil and gas companies

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.