Goffman Stresses Importance Of Community Monitors For Methane Rules

Acting EPA air chief Joe Goffman is stressing the importance of a novel community-based monitoring concept the agency floated in its proposal to strengthen methane standards for the oil and gas sector, suggesting EPA’s forthcoming supplemental proposal to flesh out the details of that measure could be key to the overall rule’s success. Speaking at a virtual meeting of EPA’s Clean Air Act Advisory Committee (CAAAC) on Dec. 15, Goffman said the community monitoring initiative might be the difference between...