"API welcomes this action and we look forward to working with the administration and Congress on forward-looking policies that recognize our industry as part of the solution to USA economic, environmental and national security goals", API spokesman Reid Porter told the National Gas Intelligence's Shale Daily.
"States have made tremendous progress and significant investment cleaning up the air". However, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt responded to requests from the oil and gas industry, moving to delay these safeguards (along with several other requirements). In May, dozens of farmworkers fell ill and were evacuated from a central California cabbage field when chlorpyrifos and other pesticides drifted from a nearby orchard. The rule lowers the national ground-level ozone, or smog, standard from 75 to 70 parts per billion.
Areas not in compliance with the rule "face consequences, including: increased regulatory burdens, restrictions on infrastructure investment, and increased costs to businesses", according to EPA.
Republicans opposed the Obama administration's lowering of ozone standards in 2015 since many counties, in California and the Northeast, were still out of compliance with the 2008 ozone standard.
So, rather than the gain of 47,000 jobs touted by Pruitt, the reality is that 1,000 coal jobs have been added since Trump became president.
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Since 1980, total emissions of the six principal air pollutants have dropped by 63 percent and ozone levels have declined by 33 percent.
Environmentalists, however, said EPA's review is "code" for repeal.
In filing formal objections, the state AGs join forces with public health, farmworker and environmental advocates-including NRDC-that also filed a formal administrative appeal with the EPA yesterday, urging the agency to ban the chemical and challenging the agency on its continued use after EPA scientists have determined it to be unsafe.
The Trump administration violated the Clean Air Act in suspending critical protections against methane leaks and other unsafe air pollution from the oil and gas industry last week, according to a lawsuit filed today by the Natural Resources Defense Council. A 2011 study by economists at Middlebury College and Yale University estimated that pollution from coal power caused 2.2 times the dollar value in gross external damages (mainly through the negative health effects of sulfur dioxide emissions) than coal-fired generation added in economic value.
But Zalzal said many state laws already require companies to monitor and fix methane leaks. The leak detection and fix requirements were scheduled to take full effect on June 3, and EPA's stay was published in the Federal Register this morning. He said he may soon propose to extend the stay indefinitely. Plus, few of the 47,000 jobs were coal mining jobs. This is an improper exercise of the Administrator's authority. He then goes on to discuss a stagnant, wishy-washy solution generally favored by those in the GOP who refuse to say outright they don't believe in climate change. "The Rule of Law still matters, and here EPA did not follow the law". "The action was patently unlawful, the irreparable harm to the public is serious, and the burden on industry is minimal".
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