BLM Methane Rule Faces New Legal Fight In Wake Of Similar EPA Measure

The Trump administration has finalized its plan to largely scrap several Obama-era provisions limiting releases of methane, the potent greenhouse gas, from oil and gas development on public lands, setting up a new round of litigation with environmentalists who are already threatening to sue over similar EPA rollbacks. The Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Sept. 18 final rule is the second of what many observers expect to be three broad steps by Trump officials to undo oil and gas methane...