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For Immediate Release, April 6, 2021 Contact: 400 Groups Petition EPA to Control Methane, Ethane Pollution Oil, Methane Gas Production Is Largest Industrial Source of Compounds Creating Smog WASHINGTON— More than 400 groups, representing tens of millions of people, petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency today to control harmful methane and ethane emissions that are the largest industrial source of compounds causing ozone pollution, also known as smog. Some 125...

© Getty Images Hundreds of environmental groups on Tuesday submitted a petition calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take action to curtail ethane and methane emissions responsible for smog. In a statement Tuesday, the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the groups petitioning, noted that despite ethane and methane’s contributions to smog, they are exempt from emissions limits based on a 1977 understanding of their contributions. The agency’s official definition of �...

For Immediate Release, March 16, 2021 Contact: Liz Doherty, Sierra Club, (978) 578-3699, liz.doherty@sierraclub.org Lawsuit Challenges Colorado’s Rubber-stamping of Air Pollution Permits for Oil, Fracked Gas Wells DENVER— Conservation groups sued the Colorado Air Pollution Control Division today for issuing an air-pollution permit that will potentially allow thousands of new oil and fracked gas wells throughout the state. The permit fails to consider whether air pol...

For Immediate Release, February 25, 2021 Contact: Lawsuit Filed to Protect Endangered Wildlife, Plants From Dangerous Smog WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to assess harms to endangered plants and animals when determining the national air pollution standard for smog. The lawsuit seeks to ensure that the EPA consults with the expert agencies responsible for wildlife and pla...

The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission has approved a compromise proposal, negotiated by environmental groups, local governments, and industry groups, for a first-in-the-nation rule to require some pneumatic control devices at oil-and-gas facilities to be retrofit to lower methane emissions. A coalition of conservation groups — Sierra Club, Earthworks, and Center for Biological Diversity, represented by Earthjustice — partnered with other environmental groups, local governments, and ind...

"Theres clearly bipartisan support to reduce air pollution from the oil and methane gas industry, but whats been missing is the political will to get it done, said Robert Ukeiley, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. "Were calling on the Biden administration to take the common-sense steps that will protect people and wildlife alike from dangerous pollution from the fossil fuel industry, he said. ``Ultimately, the key to safeguarding the air we breathe is to move quickly away from...

For Immediate Release, February 11, 2021 Contact: Kaya Sugerman, Center for Environmental Health, (510) 740-9384, kaya@ceh.org Lawsuit Launched to Fight EPA’s Delay in Reducing Air Pollution From Oil, Methane Gas Industries in Six States Areas Include California, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia WASHINGTON— Two conservation groups filed a formal notice today of their intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to ensure that ad...

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to assess harm to endangered plants and animals when determining the national air pollution standard for soot. This suit, which is the first of its kind, seeks to ensure that the EPA consults with agencies responsible for wildlife and plant protection to ensure its action does not drive any endangered species to extinction.

DENVER— Conservation and social-justice groups sued the Colorado Air Pollution Control Division today for issuing an air-pollution permit that will potentially allow thousands of oil and fracked gas wells throughout the state. The permit fails to consider whether air pollution from oil and fracked gas wells will create unsafe levels of pollution in the state’s communities, according to the lawsuit. Those areas include the Metro Denver/North Front Range area, which has viol...

For Immediate Release, January 5, 2021 Contact: Robert Ukeiley, (720) 496-8568, rukeiley@biologicaldiversity.org Court Orders Trump’s EPA to Redo Approval of Colorado’s Flawed Plan to Reduce Smog, Acid Rain DENVER— A federal appeals court today ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to redo its approval of Colorado’s flawed plan to protect people and the state’s treasured natural areas from smog and acid rain. The order was issued by the U.S. Court of App...