Last May, the Trump EPA issued a 90-day stay of two Obama-era landfill methane rules, namely the Standards of Performance for Municipal Solid Waste Landfills (NSPS Subpart XXX) and the Emissions Guidelines (EG). EPA was responding to concerns by industry groups to reconsider portions of the rules. After the stay was put into place, the
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D.C. Circuit Stays Challenges to Oil and Gas Infrastructure Methane Rules
By Freeborn & Peters LLP on
Posted in General Environmental
On May 18th, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the EPA’s request to stay challenges to the New Source Performance Standards regulating methane emissions from oil and gas infrastructure, pending review of the rule in accordance with President Trump’s Energy Independence Executive Order. EPA announced in April that it intended to reconsider the…