Supreme Court rejects attempt to halt oil and gas methane standards in an important step for public health and the climate
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected two requests to halt implementation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rule setting new source standards and existing source guidelines to limit emissions of methane and smog forming volatile organic compound (VOC) pollution from the oil and gas sector. This past July, a unanimous three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied similar requests to halt the rule.
“The Supreme Court made the right decision by halting these long-shot bids by states and a small group of industry players to unnecessarily delay implementation of these important methane standards. The fate of clean air regulations should not be determined by such rushed and under-informed proceedings on the shadow docket,” said Darin Schroeder, Methane Legal and Regulatory Director at Clean Air Task Force (CATF). “These rules are on firm legal ground, and we will continue to defend attempts to block these well-supported standards and the significant climate and public health benefits they will deliver.”
CATF represents Earthworks as intervenors defending EPA’s oil and gas methane rules. The D.C. Circuit cases considering the merits are State of Texas et al. v. EPA, No. 24-1054, and associated cases.
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