Pruitt Says EPA To Weigh Limiting Oil & Gas Methane In Pollutant 'Bundle'

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt says the agency plans to weigh the “significant” question of whether to regulate oil and gas methane emissions directly or as part of a “bundle” of emissions including conventional air pollutants, the latter of which likely would foreclose any future standards of the potent greenhouse gas for existing equipment in the sector. Pruitt during a House hearing last week noted that much of the current administration’s work to date on the Obama EPA's first-time methane rules...