EPA Study Review May Help Calculate Existing Oil & Gas Air Rule Benefits

May 27, 2016
EPA is poised to this month complete a peer review of how to incorporate a study on monetized benefits of reducing ozone-related mortality due to cutting methane emissions into regulatory analyses, which advocates say might help EPA use data from its draft information request for existing oil and gas operations in order to calculate benefits of a potential methane rule for those sources. The agency's Office of Air & Radiation plans to complete by May 31 its review of an...


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