Could EPA Regulate Methane And Ethane As Volatile Organic Compounds Under The Clean Air Act? | Vinson & Elkins LLP
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On April 6, 2021, more than 400 environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) submitted to EPA a “Petition for Rulemaking to Remove Methane and Ethane from ‘Negligibly Reactive’ Volatile Organic Compounds List.” If granted, the petition could have greater consequence for Clean Air Act regulation than has the “endangerment finding” EPA issued for greenhouse gases in 2009 following Massachusetts v. EPA. This is because the Clean Air Act was built to regulate volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in ways it was not buil...
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