Regulations adopted by state air-quality regulators Friday will result in part in increased leak detection and repair requirements for oil and gas wells, including in the case of low-producing wells
U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., on Thursday introduced a bill his office said in a news release would end public land giveaways by prohibiting cut-rate, noncompetitive oil and gas leasing
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Some conservation groups and oil and gas industry representatives have reached agreement on a joint proposal for what they say would be a first-in-the-nation rule under which companies would have to retrofit pneumatic control devices at oil and gas sites to cut methane emissions.
The groups are proposing the requirement to the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission, which is scheduled to consider new rules targeting the devices at a meeting Feb 18-19.The proposal was announced in a news release this week from the Sierra Club, Earthworks and Center for Biological Diversity, which are legally represented by Earthjustice in the rulemaking process.