- The rule changes will apply to wells drilled since 2016 and going forward, and remove the largest pipelines, storage sites and other parts of the transmission system from EPA oversight of smog and greenhouse-gas emissions. The changes also ease reporting requirements for the industry and, for some facilities, how often a plant must check for leaks of other pollutants, the officials said.
The accelerationists have won.
I'm not as pessimistic as you. This one seems like sound and fury for the Pennsylvania electoral college. Pragmatically speaking, it means quarterly inspections rather than biannual inspections. It's likely to impact one inspection cycle, which I'll bet has already been impacted by COVID. It's a move broadly disfavored by large natural gas companies and pushed by the scrapper local firms and if the large companies can make things harder for scrapper local firms through a little selective lobbying, they will. I'll bet this was done for a few guys in Pennsylvania to make their election prospects easier and I'll bet it's one of dozens of things that get rolled back the minute there's someone halfway sane in office. Either that or we're all fundamentally fucked.The accelerationists have won.