Advocates Hope EPA Data Request Will Spur Oil & Gas Air Rule Revisions

摘要

Environmentalists hope EPA's recent request for information on hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions from the oil and natural gas sector is an early indication that the agency will revise its 2012 air toxics rule for the sector as well as a review of the residual risks to humans from the sector's emissions that environmentalists have criticized. In a pre-publication notice released Nov. 4 ahead of its upcoming publication in the Federal Register, EPA asks for data not available at the time it crafted the 2012 national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) for the oil and gas production industry, as well as the natural gas transmission and storage sectors.