BLM Accepts Last Batch of Comments on Obama Rule Rollback

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Date

April 23, 2018

News Type

Media Highlight

Source

EnergyWire

"A new analysis poses this question on an Obama-era rule on methane waste from oil and gas operations on federal and tribal lands: 'Should it stay or should it go?' Resources for the Future researchers Alan Krupnick and Isabel Echarte ask in their recent report on the 2016 Methane and Waste Prevention Rule."

Topics

Electric Power

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Alan Krupnick

Senior Fellow; Director, Industry and Fuels Program

Alan Krupnick is a senior fellow at RFF.

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