EPA’s Draft New Source Performance Standards Updates, Emissions Guidelines to Reduce Methane and Other Harmful Pollution from the Oil and Natural Gas Industry
EPA held a public hearing on this draft rule to provide the public the opportunity to present comments and information on the Agency’s proposed New Source Performance Standards and Emissions Guidelines for the oil and natural gas industry. The proposal would expand and strengthen emissions reduction requirements that are currently on the books for new, modified and reconstructed oil and natural gas sources, and would require states to reduce methane emissions from hundreds of thousands of existing sources nationwide for the first time!
The comment period closed on January 31st, 2022.
You can read NTAA’s letter submitted on January 31st, 2022 here.
The following slide shows were used in the webinar shown above:
Moms Clean Air Force Presentation
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
NTAA’s PRK for Tribes includes:
- NTAA Fact Sheet on EPA’s Proposed Rule on Emissions Guidelines to Reduce Methane from the Oil and Natural Gas Industry
- NTAA published a Template Letter for Tribes to use to comment
- NTAA’s comment letter will be submitted on the comment deadline.
Oil and Gas Virtual Hearing:
- EPA’s public hearing was held on Tuesday, November 30, 2021 and Wednesday, December 1, 2020. Follow the links below to watch the hearings.
- Tuesday, November 30: https://youtu.be/j3YURQwMvTEEXIT EPA WEBSITE
- Wednesday, December 1: https://youtu.be/Hcmwuj8jsaQEXIT EPA WEBSITE
- Thursday, December 2: https://youtu.be/QULhkeAOqxwEXIT EPA WEBSITE
- NTAA Chairwoman Carol Kriebs provided testimony during the hearing. Here are NTAA’s Talking Points during the hearing.
- NTAA provided Opening Remarks for an EPA Training on this draft methane rule on November 17, 2021. you can view a PDF of the slide show here. More information on EPA’s training that took place Nov 16-18 2021 can be found here.