WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-Virginia, issued the following news release:

Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) joined Representatives Sean Casten (IL-06), Scott Peters (CA-50), and Kevin Mullin (CA-15) to introduce the Methane Emissions Mitigation Research and Development Act to create a program for methane emissions detection and mitigation research, development, and demonstration for technologies and methods that would detect and mitigate emissions.