BLM, State Methane Plans Could Boost Call For EPA Existing Source Rule

Environmentalists say plans by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and states such as California and Pennsylvania on cutting methane emissions from the natural gas sector could boost their call for EPA to promulgate first-time methane limits on existing drilling operations after it finalizes a methane rule for new drilling. The plans by the states, which also include Colorado, will only address drilling operations that those states have power to regulate, says one environmentalist. Similarly, the BLM regulations proposed Jan...