Methane Emissions – Page 3 – Environmental and Energy Law Program

Legal Analysis

BLM’s Proposed Methane Waste Prevention Rule Summary

An overview of the proposed rule, including the legal developments that have shaped the proposal and key changes from prior administrations’ waste prevention rules.

January 4, 2023

Legal Analysis

EPA’s Supplemental Methane Proposal — A Comprehensive Regulatory Framework to Encourage Use of Advanced Technologies and Significantly Reduce Methane Emissions

Examining EPA Supplemental methane proposal’s approaches to enabling the timely deployment of rapidly advancing technologies that can lead to greater emission reductions by detecting the larger events that are a significant portion of the sector’s methane emissions.

November 21, 2022

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw — Carrie Jenks and Kate Konschnik Talk about EPA’s Proposed Methane Rules

Carrie and Kate discuss some of the input EPA is seeking about advanced methane detection technologies and how regulations could enable their deployment to achieve emission reductions.

December 15, 2021

Legal Analysis

EPA’s Methane Proposal for the Oil and Gas Sector – A Strong Foundation to Reduce Methane Emissions and Regulatory Path for More

Key areas on which stakeholders may want to provide EPA comment to support a final rule that achieves significant emission reductions through the deployment of cost-effective technologies and approaches.

November 16, 2021

Legal Analysis

Weighing the Risks of Using the CRA to Restore EPA’s Methane Standards

Legal challenges are unlikely to succeed but do present a serious risk that policymakers should weigh against the CRA’s potential expediency.

October 22, 2020

Legal Analysis

EPA’s Final Methane Emissions Rules Roll Back Standards and Statutory Authority

The rules lift emissions standards for broad segments of the industry and will result in a significant increase in expected methane, VOC, and HAP emissions in the coming years.

September 9, 2020

Legal Analysis

When industry support for stricter regulation is good business: Considering the car rules and methane standards

Since President Trump’s election, his administration has engaged in an aggressive rollback of environmental regulations promulgated during the Obama administration.[1] These reforms have been animated in part by a desire […]

April 14, 2020

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw: Restricting EPA’s authority – Joe Goffman and Laura Bloomer Talk Clean Air Act Rollbacks

Laura and Joe talk about how the Trump administration is using regulatory rollbacks to advance new interpretations of the Clean Air Act that restrict EPA’s authority to address climate change and threaten the agency’s long-term ability to deliver needed reductions in air pollution.

March 9, 2020

EELP News

Op-Ed: So You Say You Support Methane Regulation? Here’s How To Take Action

As published in the Houston Chronicle. Kudos to BP America for company chairman and president Susan Dio’s bold call on these pages for the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate methane, […]

April 5, 2019