Oil companies get more time to capture emissions from wells

Washington Post: Half a dozen environmental groups also praised the new regulations, which they said would "result in major reductions' of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), toxic benzene and natural gas, or methane, a potent contributor to climate change. The issue of whether to regulate drilling emissions has become a political football in an election year and amid the boom in shale gas drilling over the past three years. President Obama has talked about the need to tap shale gas in an environmentally responsible...

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