Trump EPA Faces ‘Complicated’ Path For Any Methane Rule Repeal Effort

President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to pursue a sweeping deregulatory agenda at EPA comes as some observers say the incoming administration faces a heavy lift for any bid to fully scrap oil and gas methane emissions rules as officials attempted during his first term, due to the rules’ complexity and prior Hill action rebuking the initial Trump rollback. Even so, one industry source sees “other avenues” to ease the rules more narrowly, including via formal reconsideration of various provisions of the...