North Dakota outlines appeal of oil, gas waste ruling

North Dakota is urging a federal appellate court to overturn a lower court's decision that denied the state had standing to intervene in an EPA settlement with environmentalists that outlines how the agency will re-examine its waste rules for the oil and gas sector. In its opening brief in Environmental Integrity Project, et al. v. Scott Pruitt , North Dakota challenges both a Nov. 18 district court ruling and a subsequent consent decree reached by EPA and the environmental plaintiffs...