EPA Plans Aggressive Appeal Of Judge’s Landfill Methane Deadline Order

EPA is planning to appeal a district judge’s rejection of its request to change his order to accommodate the agency’s extension of deadlines to issue a federal landfill methane rule, suggesting it intends to forcefully defend its authority to change its own rules and that the judge abused his discretion and violated separation of powers. “On appeal, the [9th] Circuit will review this Court’s decision to deny EPA’s . . . motion for abuse of discretion,” the Department of Justice...