The US Environmental Protection Agency is delaying plans to issue proposals to regulate methane emissions from oil and gas operations until 2015, OGJ has learned. It reached the decision a week after the American Lung Association issued results of a survey it commissioned that found 63% of respondents supporting the agency establishing the first federal methane emissions limits. Greenberg Quinlan Rosner and Perception Insight surveyed 1,000 registered voters nationally by telephone Nov. 13-18, ALA said on Dec. 10 as it released findings that also showed 43% favorable impressions of EPA and 42% unfavorable feelings toward the oil and gas industry. “The poll shows that a large, bipartisan majority of American voters support a methane pollution standard that will protect public health,” Perception Insight President Marc DelSignore said. “Support increases, in particular, with Republicans who move from being tied on the initial question to a 14-point margin in support after hearing arguments from both sides.”