Source: Rachel Frazin, THE HILL, 9/17/20


A court has temporarily halted an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule that rescinded Obama-era standards for methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, preventing the rollback from taking effect for the time being.  A panel of three federal judges issued a procedural pause on the rule called an administrative stay while the court decides whether to halt it for a longer period of time. They wrote that the order “should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits” of whether to grant the longer pause.

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