PA DEP Withdraws Onerous VOC/Methane Regs After Lawsuit Filed

In March the Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board (EQB), a sub-agency of the Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP), approved a final version of onerous new regulations that supposedly will capture every last molecule of stray methane that leaks from shale and conventional drilling operations (see PA EQB Approves Final Onerous Methane Regs Harming Conv Drillers). These regs have been developed and tweaked since 2016. Last week several oil and gas associations that represent conventional drillers sued to block the new regs. The DEP promptly withdrew the proposed new regs.

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