States, Environmentalists Detail Legal Attacks On EPA Methane Rollback

Democratic-led states and environmental groups are outlining their legal claims against EPA’s rule scrapping direct methane standards for the oil and gas sector, charging the agency relies on an unprecedented narrow view of its authority while ignoring prior conclusions on the need for controls and important reliance interests. The arguments surface in Dec. 8 opening briefs in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in State of California, et al., v. Wheeler , which challenges EPA’s...