Judge Scraps Stay Of Royalty Rule, Boosting Suits Over EPA, DOI Rules

摘要

A federal judge has backed states and environmentalists' claim that the Trump administration cannot use the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) to delay an Obama-era rule boosting royalty rates for fossil fuel extraction on federal land that has already taken effect, potentially boosting other suits targeting similar delays of methane emissions from some oil and gas sites and EPA limits on power plant effluent.