“While we applaud President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency for finalizing voluntary control techniques guidelines (CTGs) for smog-forming pollution from oil and gas production, EPA has not yet applied these guidelines to 70 percent of wells in affected areas: low producing wells.
Although EPA is still soliciting input on whether to include low producers, with the climate change crisis happening now there’s no time for waffling.
The next administration must act to regulate all sources of air pollution from oil and gas production — including methane and associated toxics like benzene — that put in peril both the public health and the health of our climate.”