EPA Downplays Cost Harms For Small Wells In Opposing Methane Rule Stay

EPA and its supporters are urging a federal court to spurn the oil and gas industry’s claims that the cost of its methane rule, particularly for low-production wells, justifies a court-issued stay, arguing their cost claims are overstated or speculative and that delaying the rule would harm the public. The arguments, submitted June 11 in consolidated litigation in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, build on prior debates between the Justice Department (DOJ) and Republican-led...