EPA holds 2 days of discussions in Denver about oil and gas issues

March 2, 2018

The US Environmental Protection Agency hosted a two-day oil and gas roundtable with stakeholders including state and local leaders, Indian tribes, trade associations and producers, and environmental organizations. “This roundtable fulfills a commitment I made last year to improve EPA’s working relationship with state regulators and American businesses,” Administrator E. Scott Pruitt said on Feb. 28 after it concluded.

He committed to holding the meeting in 2017 after oil and gas associations in Colorado and North Dakota expressed regulatory compliance concerns. The Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission and the Environmental Council of States were co-hosts. “EPA is working closely with the states to provide clarity and certainty to oil and gas rules and permitting processes,” Pruitt declared.

“It was a good opportunity for everyone to share ideas,” Western Energy Alliance Pres. Kathleen Sgamma, who attended the roundtable’s first day of sessions, told OGJ on Mar. 1.

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Nick Snow

NICK SNOW covered oil and gas in Washington for more than 30 years. He worked in several capacities for The Oil Daily and was founding editor of Petroleum Finance Week before joining OGJ as its Washington correspondent in September 2005 and becoming its full-time Washington editor in October 2007. He retired from OGJ in January 2020.