Looking Beyond Drilling NSPS, Activists Eye Options For Limiting Methane

摘要

Environmental groups are weighing legal options for pushing EPA to target methane and other emissions from natural gas production, transmission and distribution sources, such as existing gas wells and oil drilling sites that they say are not adequately addressed in the agency's pending air rules for the oil and gas industry. "We're still exploring other options" for recommending additional controls for reducing methane, air toxics and other emissions from onshore oil and gas sources, one environmentalist says. Those options include legal and regulatory avenues for imposing more stringent controls, including challenging the upcoming rule on the merits, petitioning the agency to revise the rule and other options.