The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy announced a conditional commitment to 14 states to receive a total of $350 million in formula grant funding to help measure and reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will receive $134,151,343 from this amount. Funding for this commitment comes through the Inflation Reduction Act. and s based on a participating state’s proportion of the total number of low-producing conventional wells in participating states on nonfederal lands. Funding received through the Methane Emissions Reduction Program will provide a combination of technical and financial assistance to states to help well owners and operators voluntarily identify and eliminate methane emissions from low-producing conventional oil and gas wells, also referred to as marginal conventional wells, with disproportionately high methane emissions. States can also use the funding to support environmental restoration of well sites and monitor the sites to verify that plugged wells are no longer emitting methane.