Oil & Gas Methane Rule Seen As Win For EPA After Regulatory Missteps

EPA's pending first-time rule to set limits on the oil and gas sector's methane emissions is seen as a major win for the agency after a number of missteps in trying to regulate the industry, sources say, including its much-criticized efforts to tighten oversight of the industry and to assess hydraulic fracturing's potential impacts on water quality. Many of the initiatives EPA undertook in the oil and gas sector “took a much slower pace or disappeared” as the administration began...