Full Title: Overview of Final Amendments to Air Regulations for the Oil and Natural Gas Industry
Author(s): The US Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher(s): The US Environmental Protection Agency
Publication Date: April 1, 2012
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Description (excerpt):
On April 17, 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued cost-effective regulations to reduce harmful air pollution from the oil and natural gas industry while allowing continued, responsible growth in U.S. oil and natural gas production.
The final rules include the first federal air standards for natural gas wells that are hydraulically fractured, along with requirements for several other sources of pollution in the oil and gas industry that currently are not regulated at the federal level. The rules for fractured gas wells rely on proven, cost-effective technology and practices that industry leaders are using today at about half of the fractured natural gas wells in the U.S.