10th Circuit dismisses appeal of BLM methane rule delay

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit is dismissing a challenge to the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) effort to delay implementing Obama-era methane limits for oil and gas operations on federal land, holding that the case is moot because BLM has since finalized a replacement rule scrapping much of the standards. The court issued the April 9 order in Wyoming, et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al., without holding oral argument. “After examining the...