The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday took a new step in enacting President Trump’s executive order to roll back Obama-era energy regulations by granting industry petitions to reconsider methane emission rules for fracking.
“EPA is continuing to follow through with President Trump’s Energy Independence Executive Order,” said EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. “American businesses should have the opportunity to review new requirements, assess economic impacts and report back, before those new requirements are finalized.”
Pruitt announced that the agency is halting the effective date of the new source performance standard for methane. It also will open a new period so the energy industry and other interested groups can comment on the rule.
The EPA sent a two-page letter to industry groups, such as the American Petroleum Institute, that formally requested that the rule be reconsidered by the administration. The industry has argued that the regulations are duplicative and not necessary, given the industry’s own standards for eliminating methane releases as a good business practice
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Pruitt takes steps to roll back Obama's fracking rules https://t.co/7MgfZDcLjl
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