Senate Democrats on Thursday introduced legislation to nullify a recent EPA rule that gives oil and gas companies more time to comply with methane standards.
Sens. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Environment and Public Works Committee ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) introduced the resolution, shared first with POLITICO’s E&E News, under the Congressional Review Act.
“The Trump administration is hellbent on creating a legacy of more air pollution, more cancer and birth defects, and more favors to the worst actors in the fossil fuel industry,” Schiff said in a statement. “The American people should see where their representatives stand on giving Big Oil the green light to emit more toxic air pollutants.”
In July, the agency extended deadlines for certain provisions related to control devices, equipment leaks, storage vessels, process controllers and other systems.
