EPA Speeds Timeline For Final Power Plant GHG Rule, Slows Methane Fee

EPA’s just-released regulatory agenda shows the agency is speeding its timeline for finalizing power plant greenhouse gas standards, even as it slows the schedule for a rule implementing the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) methane fee. However, the latest agenda, released June 13, shows EPA remains on track to issue oil and gas methane emissions standards by August, and that it is sticking with its pledged timelines for finalizing multi-pollutant standards for light- and medium-duty vehicles and its proposed “phase 3”...