Litigation: DOJ fights EPA critics’ push for stay of oil & gas leak rule

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to reject environmentalists’ request for a stay of the agency’s air rule easing leak detection and other requirements for oil and gas sector facilities, arguing that groups have not met the stringent legal text for such a request. “A judicial stay of an agency decision is a disfavored remedy,” DOJ writes in a Dec. 11 response motion in Environmental Defense Fund (EDF),...