Oil & Gas Groups Outline Early Arguments Against GHG Reporting Rule

Oil and gas groups are outlining preliminary legal arguments against EPA’s greenhouse gas reporting updates for the sector, signaling a heavy focus on claims that multiple aspects of the rule are arbitrary including its treatment of empirical data and the rule’s interaction with the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) methane fee. The litigation underscores industry scrutiny of EPA’s Subpart W GHG reporting requirements now that their reporting data will help determine their methane fee obligations starting with next year’s emissions, even...