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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 million people in the United States live in areas with smog levels that are consistently above what...

© 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 “volatile organic compounds” exempts some compounds by classifying them as “negligibly reactive...

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 pollution from oil and fracked gas wells will create unsafe levels of pollution in the state’s commun...

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 plant protection to ensure its action does not drive any endangered species extinct. Today’s suit is ...

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 industry to tackle the problem of emissions from pneumatic controllers.