Federal Appeals Court Tosses Trump-Era Rule To Limit GHG Standards

摘要

The oil and gas industry may soon face greenhouse gas new source performance standards after a federal appeals court in early April remanded to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency a regulation published in the Trump administration's waning days, published reports indicate. According to press accounts, EPA under Trump published on Jan. 13 a regulation that set the regulatory threshold for GHGs at 3% of U.S. emissions, below which other releases were deemed to fall short of statutory significance listed in Section 111(b)(1)(A) of the Clean Air Act.