The Environmental Protection Agency should withdraw and reissue a proposed rule regulating methane emissions because it hasn’t provided enough information to verify the computer modeling behind it, Heritage Foundation researchers say.
By violating the modeling requirements in the Clean Air Act, the federal law designed to reduce air pollution, EPA is operating under a double standard—one for itself, another for state agencies and other regulated agencies, the two researchers explain in comments submitted to EPA.
The researchers are Kevin Dayaratna, chief statistician in Heritage’s Center for Data Analysis, and Mario Loyola, a senior research fellow at Heritage for environmental policy and regulation who also is a professor at Florida International University. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s news and commentary outlet.)
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