Judge Denies EPA Request To Pause Deadline For Landfill Methane Plan

摘要

Judge Haywood Gilliam of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California is denying EPA's request to pause his latest deadline for the agency to finalize a federal plan for states to limit methane emissions from landfills, spurring the agency to ask an appellate court for the same relief. Gilliam in a Dec. 17 order in State of California, et ah, v. EPA refuses to stay his already-extended Jan. 14 deadline for EPA to finalize its proposed federal plan for states that have not submitted compliance strategies for the Obama-era landfill methane standards.