For the past six years, the United States has been the largest producer of oil in the world. In that time, the industry has managed to reduce the amount of methane emissions it produces.
Despite this achievement, the Environmental Protection Agency announced final rules in December that would further crack down on the industry’s emissions. The agency recently published these in the Federal Register, which is required before any lawsuits can be filed.
“To a regulator in the federal government, things don’t happen unless they decree it. I mean, they have a hammer, and everything looks like a nail,” Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, told Just The News.
