EPA will not strengthen hazardous pollutant limits for oil and gas producers and natural gas transmission and storage, the agency said Tuesday.
The agency issued its proposal after environmentalists sued during the Biden administration over a hazardous air pollution regulation last updated in 2012.
But EPA said it won’t make any substantive updates to the pollution standards. “We have not identified cost-effective developments that, considering all relevant factors, render it ‘necessary’ to propose revisions to the existing standards within these categories,” the agency said in a Federal Register notice scheduled to be published Wednesday.
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However, EPA did propose several smaller tweaks.
