Colorado methane pollution rules won’t change — even if federal regulations are rolled back
Source Scout · The Colorado Sun reports: Telling stories that matter in a dynamic, evolving state. The Trump administration has proposed a sweeping rollback of federal rules to cut methane emissions from oil and gas operations, but that regulatory broom won’t reach Colorado, which has its own controls on the pollutant. In September, the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission finished two years of rulemaking aimed at reducing oil and gas methane emissions, including adopting most of the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency rules that the Trump administration seeks to overturn.