COMMENTS HAVE BEEN FILED WITH RESPECT TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY'S PROPOSED NEW SOURCE PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR OIL AND GAS OPERATIONS

摘要

On December 1, the American Petroleum Institute's Director of Regulatory and Scientific Affairs, Howard Feldman, briefed reporters on the API's comments filed with respect to the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed new source performance standards for oil and natural gas operations. API's view is that they should be significantly revised in order to create practical, cost- effective rules. "The rules are important because they would over time affect hundreds of thousands of natural gas development operations. If impractical, unnecessarily stringent, or excessively costly, they could depress domestic energy production, hurt workers and consumers, and reduce revenue to the government," Feldman warned. "We have strong concerns about the one-size-fits-all approach of the proposed rule to regulating an industry that varies greatly in the type, size and complexity of operations."