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EPAClimate / Oil & Gas / MethaneDocket EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0317

EPA Standards of Performance for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources: Oil and Natural Gas Sector Climate Review

Proposed standards of performance and emissions guidelines for methane limits in the oil and gas sector. Processed through exact-hash baseline only; semantic embedding clustering has not been promoted for this docket.

BASELINE ONLY; SEMANTIC CLUSTERING QUEUED

This EPA methane climate review has only been processed against our naive character-level exact-string matching pipeline. High-fidelity semantic embeddings (BGE-large) and cosine threshold clustering are not shown as complete. Below are identical copy-paste templates discovered using raw exact hashing.

.uv-test-venv\Scripts\python.exe scripts\run_clustering.py --docket-id EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0317 --clustering-mode vector_search
Total Comments1,000Filings audited
Coordinated Comments202Campaign comments
Coordinated Share20%Proportion of record
Active Campaigns20Templates discovered
Largest Campaign146Maximum cluster size

Discovered Campaigns

Showing 20 campaigns
146comments

“I am writing to thank you for the recent rules on methane pollution from the oil and gas industry. The rules as proposed are an excellent s...”

Nov 23, 2021 - Feb 4, 2022
6comments

“Oil and gas producers should not be allowed to burn, vent or leak methane. Not only is methane a major driver of the climate crisis and a t...”

Feb 3, 2022 - Feb 4, 2022

Methodology & Ingestion Disclosures

Data Sourcing

Comments are fetched directly from official federal APIs (regulations.gov v4 API or the FCC ECFS public portal). Raw comments are ingested into our Delta Lake Bronze schema, stripping HTML noise and validating submitter fields without discarding critical metadata.

Clustering Limits & Caveats

This docket was evaluated using strict, identical character-by-character string matching. Submissions with even single-word mutations are not grouped under exact-hash metrics, underrepresenting the true volume of coordination.

6comments

“Dear EPA,I am writing to express my support for reducing methane emissions in the natural gas and oil supply chains and requiring methane m...”

Feb 3, 2022 - Feb 4, 2022
5comments

“As pro-life Christians, we want the air we breathe to be safe for our children. But leaks in our oil/gas infrastructure spew toxic pollutan...”

Dec 10, 2021 - Feb 4, 2022
5comments

“Dear EPA Administrator Regan,The city I live in, Arlington, TX, has close to 400 gas wells using hydraulic fracturing at 52 drill sites, an...”

Feb 4, 2022
3comments

“Attached please find materials in support of comments on EPA's proposed rule titled “Standards of Performance for New, Reconstructed, and M...”

Feb 4, 2022
3comments

“Communities across the U.S. are being impacted by climate change and harmful pollution, including methane. As a young Christian, I believe...”

Feb 4, 2022
3comments

“Arktos Environmental hereby submits the attached memorandum and comments to the Proposed Rules under Docket EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0317”

Feb 1, 2022
3comments

“EPA Administrator Michael Regan,I am writing in support of the EPA’s proposed methane standard and to ask that the EPA take stronger action...”

Feb 2, 2022 - Feb 3, 2022
2comments

“Please see attached comments of Environmental Defense Fund, Clean Air Council, Clean Air Task Force, Center for Biological Diversity, Earth...”

Feb 2, 2022
2comments

“We are over regulated now, and more regulations now will put a huge burden on the people, who have to pay more money for it...”

Dec 10, 2021
2comments

“To whom it may concern:LongPath Technologies (www.longpathtech.com) appreciates the opportunity to comment on the proposed rulemaking. Long...”

Feb 2, 2022 - Feb 3, 2022
2comments

“Concerned about methane, are you? And exactly how specific and serious is the danger? Just when will you apply the same standard of concern...”

Dec 10, 2021
2comments

“Hello. My name is Maria Hase. I am the Social Action Coordinator for the United Methodist Women of the Desert Southwest Conference. I live...”

Feb 4, 2022
2comments

“To Whom It May Concern:Attached are the second set of the 10,215 individual comments collected from Earthworks Members and compiled into pd...”

Feb 3, 2022
2comments

“Hello, I am submitting 36 postcards from Clean Water Action members who want EPA to enact strong regulations to protect communities from me...”

Feb 3, 2022
2comments

“EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0317-0001As a 40-year full time resident of Carlsbad New Mexico, I am strongly in support of the EPA’s proposed heightened...”

Dec 10, 2021 - Feb 2, 2022
2comments

“-The general community should not be visiting well sites or tank batteries looking for emissions. Oil and gas sites can be extremely danger...”

Feb 3, 2022
2comments

“With increased regulations the price increases exponentially. This “tax” hurts every ones pocket, especially the poor . When will the Democ...”

Dec 10, 2021
2comments

“It these toxic chemicals were being spewed into rivers, we would never allow it. For some reason when it comes to the air, we've generally...”

Feb 4, 2022