{"id":4953,"date":"2017-08-12T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2024-09-23T22:46:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T04:46:54","slug":"western-leaders-applaud-interiors-rollback-obama-era-methane-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/western-leaders-applaud-interiors-rollback-obama-era-methane-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Western leaders applaud Interior&#8217;s rollback of Obama-era methane rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u2014 Published with Permission of WesternWire.net \u2014<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;[T]he BLM believes that the 2015 final rule unnecessarily burdens industry with compliance costs and information requirements that are duplicative of regulatory programs of many states and some tribes,&#8221; agency officials\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/document?D=BLM-2017-0001-0001\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;As a result, we are proposing to rescind, in its entirety, the 2015 final rule.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Western officials are applauding the Bureau of Land Management&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blm.gov\/press-release\/blm-proposes-rescind-rule-hydraulic-fracturing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plan<\/a>\u00a0to withdraw and rewrite\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/westernwire.net\/demise-of-blm-fracking-rule-delivers-win-to-western-officials-energy-producers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an Obama administration rule<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/energy-environment\/wp\/2016\/06\/22\/federal-judge-says-obama-administration-lacks-authority-to-halt-fracking-on-public-lands\/?tid=a_inl&amp;utm_term=.bd62bc027eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aimed at limiting<\/a> hydraulic fracturing on public lands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Obama-era BLM fracking rule is unnecessary and burdensome\u2014costing the oil and gas industry over $32 million annually,&#8221; Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said in a statement to\u00a0<em>Western Wire<\/em>. &#8220;Each state has their own laws regulating energy production, to meet their own specific needs and address new and changing technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2015\/03\/26\/2015-06658\/oil-and-gas-hydraulic-fracturing-on-federal-and-indian-lands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rule<\/a>, which would have added federal requirements to oil and natural gas development to existing state regulations, is challenged in court by the attorneys general of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernenergyalliance.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Wyoming%20and%20Colorado%27s%20Motion%20for%20Preliminary%20Injunction.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernenergyalliance.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Wyoming%20and%20Colorado%27s%20Motion%20for%20Preliminary%20Injunction.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wyoming<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/2530094-155\/utah-to-fight-new-federal-fracking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Utah<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/attorneygeneral.nd.gov\/news\/federal-district-court-strikes-down-blm%E2%80%99s-fracking-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Dakota<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.westernenergyalliance.org\/sites\/default\/files\/150618UteFrackingNewsRelease.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ute Indian Tribe<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.westernenergyalliance.org\/sites\/default\/files\/BLM%20HF%20Complaint%20%28ECF%20No.%201%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Independent Petroleum Association of America<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.westernenergyalliance.org\/sites\/default\/files\/BLM%20HF%20Complaint%20%28ECF%20No.%201%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western Energy Alliance<\/a>, a supporter of\u00a0<em>Western Wire<\/em>. Oral arguments in the case are scheduled for Thursday in Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Barron, a Denver-based Baker Hostetler attorney representing industry groups in the pending litigation,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1060057810\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0the agency&#8217;s proposal is &#8220;consistent with what the industry petitioners have been saying all along: that the 2015 version of the rule did not provide any incremental environmental protection and was just a meaningless imposition of costs on industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/document?D=BLM-2017-0001-0001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposal<\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Federal Register\u00a0<\/em>yesterday, the BLM noted that complying with the rule would have cost the oil and natural gas approximately $32 million to $43 million per year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[T]he BLM believes that the 2015 final rule unnecessarily burdens industry with compliance costs and information requirements that are duplicative of regulatory programs of many states and some tribes,&#8221; agency officials\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/document?D=BLM-2017-0001-0001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;As a result, we are proposing to rescind, in its entirety, the 2015 final rule.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers across the West, including the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/westerncaucus.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/western-caucus-lauds-trump-administration-proposal-to-rescind-obama-blm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congressional Western Caucus<\/a>, have claimed the agency&#8217;s decision as a win for their states, emphasizing that the practice of hydraulic fracturing, essential for oil and natural gas development today, is already regulated at the state level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Obama Administration continuously pandered to extremist groups, enacting senseless regulations which were not based on science that punished job creators in the process,&#8221; Caucus Chairman Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/westerncaucus.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/western-caucus-lauds-trump-administration-proposal-to-rescind-obama-blm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. &#8220;BLM&#8217;s duplicative fracking rule was no exception. Scrapping this unnecessary Washington mandate is a major victory for the West and something Western Caucus members have been leading the charge on for years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a major victory for New Mexico and other western states that were targeted by this job-killing regulation,&#8221; Rep. 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