EPA is launching a formal review of oil and gas industry sources of the greenhouse gas (GHG) methane to help it decide by this fall on how to best control such releases, a key part of President Obama's just-released plan to curb methane emissions and which could result in first-time ...
The Environmental Protection Agency has set strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, buses and other large vehicles.
for the time being, a new rule that aims to curb emissions of the greenhouse gas methane from new and existing oil and gas facilities.The high court rejected a request from nearly half of the states and industry groups to put the measure from the Environmental Protection Agency on hold...
The Situation:The Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") finalized regulations designed to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry by 80% in coming years at both new and existing facilities. The regulations include a "super emitter" program allowing third parties to remotely detect ...
EPA incorporates these thresholds into an equation to determine whether a facility is ultimately an “applicable facility” subject to the Methane Fee. EPA provided an example of how a threshold would be calculated for an onshore oil or gas production facility th...
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methane emissions from oil and gas facilities; methane emissions from landfills; and the use, importation, and production of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). EPA has identified widespread noncompliance in all three areas, resulting in potentially tens of thousands of tonnes of illegal emission...
US state and federal air quality and environmental agencies are contemplating how to better estimate and measure the level of VOC emissions coming from oil and gas production facilities. The EPA Office of Air and Radiation is considering a partnership with oil firms and environmental agencies of wes...
EPA has reached agreement with environmentalists to settle their lawsuit seeking to force agency action on state plans to curb ozone-forming emissions from oil and gas operations, either to force issuance of state plans, or to approve or disapprove plans already submitted. In a proposed consent ...
EPA has finalized a schedule to complete a long-delayed review and reconsideration of its air toxics rules for oil and gas production by the end of 2025, which will likely result in the agency removing an existing regulatory exemption for periods of malfunction and imposing new emissions limits ...