"The EPA’s plans to regulate methane emissions from oil and gas operations will need industry support to stick in case Republicans take over Congress after the 2022 midterm elections, EPA administrator Michael Regan told Bloomberg Law Wednesday in Glasgow.
In an interview from the United Nations climate change summit, Regan said the plan to regulate methane emissions unveiled Nov. 2 will make the U.S. “globally competitive” because they constitute a “strong business play.”
Separately, he said, EPA has no specific timeline to name a head of its Office of Air and Radiation—the last remaining Senate-confirmed office to be filled at EPA.
Joe Goffman has been serving as the office’s acting head almost since the start of the Biden administration, a move that has drawn criticism from Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), the top Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee."
Bobby Magill reports for Bloomberg Environment November 10, 2021.
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