EPA Methane Plan May Drive Gas Sector Air Cuts Ahead Of Ozone NAAQS

EPA's imminent plan for reducing emissions of the greenhouse gas (GHG) methane from the oil and gas sector may be a greater driver in the near-term for the sector curbing ozone-forming emissions and reducing methane as a co-benefit rather than the agency's plan to tighten its ozone air standard later this year, environmentalists say. “Methane is where the action will be in the short term,” one environmentalist says of air pollution reductions from oil and gas drilling. Even if EPA...