EPA announced Monday that it had finalized a minor update to Biden-era methane standards for oil and gas operations.
The rule, which EPA cast as a reversal of “burdensome, unworkable Biden-era oil and natural gas policies,” was first proposed by the Biden EPA in December 2024 after it granted industry petitions for limited changes to its methane standards.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin in a statement Monday accused the Biden EPA of seeking “to regulate the oil and gas industry out of existence.”
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“We are taking another step to fix those mistakes while proving we can both protect human health and the environment and grow the economy at the same time,” he said.
