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Illinois tries to force EPA's hand on methane standards

Posted by [email protected] on Jul. 31, 2020     

Illinois is joining more than a dozen other states in trying to force the Environmental Protection Agency's hand on methane pollution standards. A motion filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia asks the court to find that EPA's nearly four-year delay in fulfilling its obligation to establish methane standards for existing oil and gas sources is unreasonable, and to set a schedule requiring the agency to move forward swiftly.

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