Tribal, environmental groups sue over methane rule delay

The Trump administration has made rolling back environmental protections one of its primary — and arguably most successful — initiatives. But at every turn, the federal agencies in charge of these rules are being challenged in the courts. A coalition of tribal and environmental groups, represented by Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit Monday, challenging the administration’s two-year stay of the methane waste reduction rule, a regulation that required oil and gas producers on public lands to monitor and fix methane leaks. The Bureau of Land Management rule had already been finalized.