States Renew Fight Over Social Costs Of GHGs In BLM Methane Rollback Suit

California and New Mexico are renewing their efforts to challenge the Trump administration's use of drastically lower climate damage estimates to justify climate rule rollbacks, citing the issue as one of numerous flaws in litigation over the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) rule largely rescinding Obama-era methane controls on federal lands. One environmentalist says the pitch is part of a case that would also be a first-of-its-kind legal test over the Trump administration's cost-based threshold for determining when methane emissions...