EPA Aims To Avoid Overstating Methane Releases, Goffman Assures Hill

EPA’s top air official is offering assurances to lawmakers from oil and gas states that the agency is aware of concerns that its proposed Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule updates for the sector could overestimate reported emissions, and thus new fees on companies, and that the agency is striving to ensure that a final rule would not do so. “We certainly don’t want to end up with a final reporting rule that would inflate data and therefore inflate liability for companies,”...