Wyoming urged to shield oil and gas air controls from EPA rollback

October 16, 2018
Environmental groups are urging Wyoming regulators to clarify a pending proposal to control oil and gas emissions to ensure that their plan to require leak detection and repair (LDAR) inspections every six months from new and modified facilities is not undermined by EPA's proposed rollback of federal limits on methane. The issue is an example of how EPA's rollback of its 2016 new source performance standards (NSPS) is spurring renewed attention to state programs and where they could be called...


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