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The EPA on Thursday proposed standards to cut smog-forming volatile organic compound emissions from processes and equipment used in the oil and gas industry. The standards are the first federal air rules affecting new and modified hydraulically fractured wells, but would leverage an operator’s ability to capture and sell natural gas using cost-effective existing technologies, the EPA said. The proposal includes new source performance standards for VOCs and sulfur dioxide, and air toxics standards for oil and natural gas production as well as natural gas transmission and storage.

California EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment on Wednesday set….

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