Texas Challenges Methane Emissions Rule, With More Pushback Expected

Texas officials have filed litigation challenging EPA’s oil and gas sector methane emissions rule, in what sources say is likely to be one of several bids from the sector or Republican states to seek either court review or agency reconsideration of the sweeping regulation. The March 8 petition for review from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, does not outline the state’s legal arguments, but it was...