Owners and operators in the oil and natural gas industry no longer need to provide the EPA with information about equipment and emissions at their operations, after the agency officially withdrew its request for it earlier this month.
The withdrawal is effective immediately, meaning owners and operators – including those who have received an extension to their due dates for providing the information – are no longer required to respond.
According to a statement issued by the EPA, Administrator Scott Pruitt “would like to assess the need for the information that the agency was collecting through these requests.”