My last post featured editorial kudos for the EPA’s evenhanded approach to regulation of one aspect of drilling: handling of methane and volatile organic compounds during fracking. Perhaps the accolades were premature. I speak of the recently exposed and widely distributed video of the then-new and recently-resigned EPA Region 6 director Al Armendariz invoking an inappropriate analogy to his “philosphy” of regulating oil and gas producers. If… Continue Reading
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Isaiah’s Prophecy Fulfilled by . . . the EPA?
Posted in Energy Policy“The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together . . .” (Isaiah 11:6) What does the Old Testament have to do with the oil business? It seems the EPA’s new rules on the capture of methane and volatile organic… Continue Reading