Air Quality Standards and Monitoring

Monitoring Techniques for Air Emissions

The American Petroleum Institute (API) discusses a process to compare methodologies used by member companies, national governmental bodies, and intergovernmental experts to develop a compendium of emission estimation methodologies. Read the report here.

The API has also developed SANGEA, an electronic greenhouse gas emissions calculation tool. Learn about it here.

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers has created a handbook of methodologies and example calculations for estimating volumes of gas released from various oil and gas well site equipment.

The Western Regional Air Partnership is a voluntary partnership of states, tribes, federal land managers, local air agencies and the US EPA whose purpose is to understand current and evolving regional air quality issues in the West. Their ongoing Oil and Gas Emission Inventory Project can be found here.

State Air Quality Regulations

For brief summaries and links to air quality regulations related to oil and gas development, see the Law & Policy page and click on the jurisdiction of choice.

For access to air quality oil and gas regulations from the states, see:

Colorado :: Montana :: New Mexico :: Utah :: Wyoming

How does my state compare to other states?

To compare state air quality regulations, search the LawAtlas Air Quality database

To compare air quality within or between states, go to EPA’s AirCompare website

For federal air quality rules, go to the Federal Clean Air Act page, or go to the LawAtlas Air Quality database