President Biden’s Executive Order 13990, Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis, directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to review and consider proposing new regulations to establish comprehensive standards of performance and emission guidelines for methane and volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from new and existing operations in the oil and gas sector, including the exploration and production, transmission, processing, and storage segments, by September 2021.
The deadline for comment was on July 30, 2021. A Fact Sheet was created to help folks better understand the Executive Order and the history behind the U.S. and the upcoming Oil and Methane Rule. A Template Letter was also created for Tribal use to modify and submit comments.