BLM backtracks on flaring rule
(WorldNews Mexico)

BLM backtracks on flaring rule The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced Monday a proposal to revise the 2016 final Waste Prevention Rule, also known as the venting and flaring rule. The proposed reversal would eliminate duplicative regulatory requirements and re-establish long-standing requirements that the 2016 final rule sought to replace, according to a BLM press release. The oil and gas industry vents or flares methane escaping from a well when capturing it for sale is economically infeasible. Environmentalist groups have claimed for years that the practice wastes publically-owned royalties and contaminates the atmosphere. Oil executives have responded their product is oil and gas...