The Environmental Protection Agency strengthened greenhouse gas reporting requirements Monday, adding more options for methane emissions monitoring and analysis.
The newly finalized subpart W rule updates the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, an Inflation Reduction Act tool, by allowing the use of “advanced measurement technologies” and beefing up methodologies to analyze resulting data.
The goal is to fill in what are often large gaps in methane emissions monitoring, and promote more accurate emissions data from oil and natural gas operations, according to the EPA.
“As we implement the historic climate programs under President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, EPA is applying the ...
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