In a last-ditch effort to avoid losing millions of dollars in federal highway funds, Pennsylvania’s environmental regulators are seeking to push through an emergency regulation that would bypass opposition in the state Legislature.
Environmental groups joined the defense in court of New Mexico’s recently imposed oil and gas emission controls after an industry groups sued the state.
Pennsylvania environmental regulators moved forward with the last piece of a rule to control air pollution from oil and gas wells on Wednesday in a scramble to finalize it in time to meet a federal sanction deadline.
