PA DEP Releases Final Onerous Methane Regs – Antis Still Not Happy

In December 2019 the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Environmental Quality Board (EQB) approved onerous new regulations that supposedly will capture every last molecule of stray methane that leaks from shale drilling operations (see PA DEP Goes WAY Too Far in Approving New Methane Regulations). The new regs are unnecessary and will shut down even more shale drilling operations in the state. After years of false starts and changes and tweaks, the DEP has finally issued a final version of the regs (full copy below) that the agency intends to implement beginning mid-next year.

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