Battle lines forming over EPA’s O&G methane proposal

摘要

Seven years after the Obama administration issued major amendments to Clean Air Act (CAA) New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) affecting the oil and gas (O&G) sector and 3 years after it issued another set of amendments, the EPA is proposing to rescind substantial parts of both actions. First, the Agency wants to remove O&G storage and transmission sources from the O&G category. Under CAA Section 111, the Agency added that subcategory to the O&G NSPS in both the 2012 and the 2016 amendments. But the Agency now states that these actions “exceed the reasonable boundaries of its authority to revise source categories.”