EPA Floats More-Flexible Audit Policy For New Oil & Gas Facility Owners

EPA has released a new draft self-audit policy giving new owners of oil and gas facilities more latitude to negotiate timeframes for fixing equipment leaks, following through with prior agency suggestions that its current policy should be streamlined to address numerous oil and gas operations and a pattern of Clean Air Act violations at such facilities. Once finalized, the draft would replace a default presumption under the current 2008 audit policy that new owners have 60 days to correct environmental...