Quad Workout: Compliance With EPA's New Methane Regulations

As all serious skiers know, consistent year-round quad, leg, and core workouts are critical to maximizing a fun, rewarding, and safe ski season. For the oil and gas industry, there is a new quad workout that demands even more attention and dedicated work to ensure compliance and minimize enforcement risk: EPA's new methane and volatile organic compound ("VOC") rules under 40 CFR Part 60, Subparts OOOOb (pronounced "Quad O-b") and OOOOc ("Quad O-c").

These new rules build and expand upon EPA's original OOOO ("Quad O") and OOOOa ("Quad O-a") regulations. Unlike EPA's prior rules, the new rules affect both new and existing facilities. EPA's OOOOc rules direct States and Native American Tribes to adopt enforceable plans for existing sources of emissions to cut methane.