API Argues Biden EPA’s ‘Errors’ Justify Extending Methane Rule Deadlines

The American Petroleum Institute (API) is claiming that EPA’s controversial compliance extension for oil and gas sector methane controls is justified because of “errors” in the Biden-era rulemaking, as the industry seeks to shore up the legal rationale for EPA’s compliance delay plan first issued as an interim final regulation (IFR). The input to the agency, focused specifically on the IFR’s compliance delays for new and modified facilities, surfaces in Sept. 30 comments . However, the IFR, which extended several...