Methane: Another Control on Fossil Fuels

The White House and the EPA are on another control kick. This time, it's controlling methane emissions.
According to Jeff Johnson in the April 7 issue of Chemical and Engineering News, methane is responsible for 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The other 85% is presumably carbon dioxide.
Again we have a lack of scientific data. The White House and the EPA are presumably guessing that a methane molecule can absorb a very large quantity of heat, as opposed to the major gases of the atmosphere (nitrogen and oxygen), which presumably are unable to absorb heat. Do we have data on this? I haven't seen anything.
The other aspect is that the methane concentration in the atmosphere is only 0.002%. How about a little quantitative analysis of these data? How much heat can a methane molecule hold? How many molecules of methane are there at an atmospheric concentration of 0.002%? Without that information, we are spinning our wheels.
Assuming that we like spinning our wheels, we can go on to the other claims. Of the total methane in the atmosphere, 35% comes from agriculture and 28% from oil and gas operations.. 36% comes from natural sources, such as wetlands, termites and the oceans.
The agricultural sources are animals, animal waste, rice production, agricultural waste burning (nonenergy, on-site), and savannah burning. Not much can be done about the passing of intestinal gas (flatulence) from animals and humans. It would also be difficult to control methane emission from animal waste on a multitude of farms and the inherent culture of rice production.
Similarly, methane release from natural sources is equally uncontrollable.
This leaves control of methane release from oil and gas operations. Ideal! The White House and the EPA want to inhibit production of oil and natural gas wherever possible, in order to favor green energy. What better way to inhibit oil and gas production than to say operators must control their release of methane beyond reasonable economic limits?