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Sheldon Whitehouse: “The EPA estimates that the Oil and Gas New Source Performance Standards finalized in 2012 will result in between 1…”

On the recordNovember 4, 2013
The EPA estimates that the Oil and Gas New Source Performance Standards finalized in 2012 will result in between 1 million and 1.7 million tons of methane reduced annually.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse highlights the expected methane reductions from EPA standards.

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