The head of America’s top environmental regulatory agency admitted at a convention last week regulators have limited knowledge of the very industry they are trying to regulate.
“My caveat is that EPA’s learning this industry right now because it’s not an industry we regulate,” Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy told audience members at the CERA Week conference Feb. 26.
She added: “We’ve just gotten into regulation of this so there’s a lot of hundreds of thousands of small sources and EPA doesn’t generally have a relationship with this industry as we do other sectors that we’ve regulated for frankly decades. But we’re learning.”
The new regulation seeks to curb emissions of methane from oil drilling on public land.
The Aliso Canyon methane leak is the largest in U.S. history, according to studies conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of California–Davis.
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