Court Defers Decision On Quickly Vacating EPA Methane Compliance Delay

A federal appellate court is deferring its decision about whether to approve environmental groups’ request to quickly vacate EPA’s compliance extensions for oil-and-gas sector methane rules, instead seeking more information on the status of the agency’s interim rulemaking. In a Nov. 19 order , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit asks EPA to submit a report by Dec. 5 on the status of its rulemaking efforts on the methane rule compliance extension. The agency both...