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AG Attorney General Nessel Joins Series of Multistate ActionsContact: Lynsey Mukomel 517-599-2746Agency: Attorney General April 30, 2021 Letter Urging Congress to Void Trump-Era EPA Regulation  Nessel joined a coalition urging Congress to use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to invalidate a Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation that eliminates key limits on pollutants from oil and gas facilities that contribute to climate change and smog, and are also dangerous by themselves.  The regulation - known as the methane Rescission Rule - replaced a prior regulation that ensured new oil and natural gas facilities would apply common sense, cost-effective measures to control emissions of methane and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), hazardous air pollutants that can also form smog. Oil and natural gas facilities are currently the single largest industrial source of methane emissions, and contribute to smog pollution that triggers asthma attacks, and can c

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