Court blocks BLM methane rule suspension

A federal district court judge is sharply rebuking the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) move to suspend for a year Obama-era methane limits for oil and gas facilities on federal land, dealing yet another blow to the Trump administration's efforts to relieve climate change regulatory burdens on the sector. In a Feb. 22 order in California, et al. v. BLM, et al ., Judge William Orrick of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California found that BLM's...