EPA Backs New Leak Detection Plan To Lower Costs, Boost Disclosure

EPA is proposing to allow a first-time alternative to already-approved equipment for detecting leaks and fugitive emissions at industrial facilities such as chemical plants and refineries, a technology stakeholders say could make it easier and cheaper to find leaks contributing to air pollution, which some claim is an area of widespread noncompliance. The issue of fugitive emissions, which can include emissions occurring when facilities start up, shut down and malfunction (SSM), has been controversial recently, with environmentalists vowing to challenge...