Methane Response Program ‘Foreshadows’ Hyper-Local Monitoring

March 10, 2023, 10:00 AM UTC

A proposed EPA program to allow third-party emissions tracking at methane leak sites is a test case for citizen air monitoring, and could preview challenges to community efforts from the oil and gas industry.

Moves to measure methane from oil and gas sources and hyper-local air monitoring programs are separate actions with different scopes, but their use of third parties to provide data that industry must potentially act on is a common thread that will continue to gain traction.

“This is going to foreshadow future similar types of developments,” said Peter Hsiao, partner at King & Spalding LLP’s West Coast ...

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