117th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 645
A BILL
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to levy a fee on methane emissions from oil and natural gas facilities, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Methane Emissions Reduction Act of 2021”.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/645/text?r=8&s=
• EPA’s proposal would require all new and existing pneumatic controllers at production, processing, and transmission and storage facilities, to have zero methane and VOC emissions, with the exception of sites in Alaska that do not have power. The proposal also would regulate emissions from intermittent vent pneumatic controllers for the first time.
• Natural gas-driven pneumatic controllers are used extensively in production, processing, and transmission and storage facilities. Natural gas emitted from these controllers accounts for nearly 30 percent of all methane emissions from oil and natural gas systems. The vast majority of these emissions come from intermittent controllers that are currently unregulated under the Clean Air Act.
• Multiple zero-emitting options for these pneumatic controllers exist, and several major oil and gas-producing states and Canadian provinces require, or have proposed to require, their use at new and existing facilities
• EPA’s proposal leverages these technologies and existing state-level programs while also providing owners and operators the flexibility to select the technologies and solutions that are appropriate for each location and facility.
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