5-13-16 EPA Bureaucracy Expands As Private Sector Faces Higher Costs
Our Mid Atlantic energy analyst friend today opines on the new EPA power grab (Re: drilling/air quality requirements): The EPA issued its “final rules” (more on that phrase in a minute) for methane emissions from new and reworked shale wells, which are described in more detail below. The rules will be phased in, but they are not subject to further comment. A couple of comments: There was a report this morning from Bloomberg that the regulations were much worse than expected, and that they came down much harder on existing [...]