EPA landfill methane rule critics cite ACE ruling to bolster suit

A coalition of nine states and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) say the recent federal appeals court ruling vacating the Trump EPA’s Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) power plant climate rule bolsters their pending case which challenges as unlawful a separate agency rule punting deadlines for municipal solid waste landfills to cut methane emissions. In a Jan. 26 letter to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, EDF along with California and eight other states pursuing the...