EPA’s landfill methane rule deadline extension clears OMB

August 7, 2019
EPA’s final rule to significantly extend state and agency compliance deadlines under the Obama administration’s 2016 methane standards for landfills has finished inter-agency review at the White House, clearing the way for the measure’s release. According to the Office of Management & Budget’s website, it completed review of the deadline extension rule on Aug. 6. Once the final deadline extensions take effect, the agency could ask a district judge to reverse a series of implementation deadlines he imposed on the...


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