EPA Draws Fire Over Barring SEPs In Oil & Gas Decrees Due To IRA Funds

EPA has determined that it cannot authorize supplemental environmental projects (SEPs) in oil and gas industry consent decrees because of related appropriations it received from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to incentivize methane emissions cuts from the sector. But the decision is being met with criticism from both the industry and environmentalists even as GOP lawmakers seek to block SEPs and closely scrutinize EPA actions. EPA’s “overly conservative bureaucratic interpretation . . . disqualifies a huge industrial sector from the...