EPA Signals Technology Enables Tougher Oil & Gas Methane Standards

A top EPA air official is signaling that the agency’s forthcoming proposal to limit methane releases from new and existing oil and gas equipment will rely on improved technology to impose much more stringent limits than current, Obama-era rules limiting releases of the potent greenhouse gas at new facilities. EPA officials have “been talking to a wide range of experts and stakeholders as we have been working to develop this proposal in order to get their input, and one of...