Inside EPA - 08/23/2019

GHG ‘Endangerment’ Questions Loom In Upcoming Oil & Gas NSPS Plan

August 20, 2019
Observers are closely watching how EPA will navigate the legal questions surrounding greenhouse gas “endangerment” in its forthcoming proposal to upend Obama-era oil and gas methane rules, including whether and to what degree it embraces industry claims that the rules omitted a required sector- or pollutant-specific risk review. The agency will soon, potentially in the coming days, release a proposed regulation that would end direct methane limits on new and modified oil and gas facilities, forestalling further regulation of methane...


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