EPA Halts Obama Emissions Rule In Review of Oil-and-Gas Impacts
As it launches a review—promised by the Trump administration—of Obama-era mandates, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on June 5 stayed for three months the 2016 requirements under the U.S. Clean Air Act New Source Performance Standards.
They regulate emissions of greenhouse gases and volatile organic compounds in oil-and-gas fracking facilities and other operations on which construction or modification began after Sept. 18, 2015.
The rules require a professional engineer to certify the design and capacity of closed-vent systems.
Industry executives claimed the mandates have no quantifiable environmental benefit. But six environmental groups on June 6 filed a U.S. appeals-court lawsuit to block the stay, claiming there was no public notice.
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