Environmental groups filed a legal motion against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop the agency from delaying deadlines for companies to reduce methane emissions from fossil fuel extraction operations.
“It’s outrageous that Trump’s EPA is delaying these lifesaving, climate-protecting pollution limits without giving people a chance to weigh in,” said Maggie Coulter, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute.
Last year, the Biden administration established the deadlines for leak detection and repair requirements. On July 31, EPA issued a rule to delay the deadlines by 18 months.
