EPA Plan For Oil Well GHG Reporting May Aid Industry Opposition To Rules

EPA's plan to expand its greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting program to include hydraulically fractured oil wells may help boost industry's opposition to direct regulation of the sector's emissions of the GHG methane, an industry source says, because it shows that the agency currently lacks crucial data on the wells' emissions to inform a rule. If EPA finalizes the reporting revisions then "more information can only help" industry in pushing back against potential EPA methane standards, the source says. The sector...