“The judge basically rejected every attempt by the Trump administration to gut these common-sense waste prevention measures on behalf of their oil and gas industry cronies.”
A gas flare is seen at an oil well site on July 26, 2013 outside Williston, North Dakota. (Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
Green groups celebrated a “resounding victory for taxpayers, public health, and the environment” late Wednesday after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from rolling back an Obama-era rule designed to limit planet-warming methane emissions.
“The Trump administration has abused every opportunity—legal or otherwise—to maximize the oil and gas industry’s profits at the expense of taxpayers, public health, and the climate.”
—Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, Western Environmental Law Center
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Rogers of the Northern District of California said the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) 2018 rescission
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