Oil and natural gas industry groups are urging EPA to overhaul white papers suggesting first-time controls for the sector's emissions of the greenhouse gas (GHG) methane by claiming the papers are inaccurate and cannot be used for regulation, though environmentalists counter that the findings justify immediately starting a rulemaking. The dispute over the papers' conclusions is the latest in a long-running battle between industry and advocates over whether and how to regulate methane from the sector. EPA's existing new source performance standards (NSPS) for oil and gas drilling imposed some controls on conventional pollutants from the sector, but punted on whether to regulate methane emissions. The white papers are an early step in the process of reviewing possible methane limits.
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