States Ask Supreme Court For Stay Of EPA Methane Rule, Say It Violates Federal Law

(August 30, 2024, 9:38 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A coalition of states has filed an application with U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to stay the 2024 Methane Rule instituted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, arguing that it violates federal law by setting “presumptive standards” rather than merely identifying the “degree of emission limitation achievable through the application of the best system of emission reduction” and leaving it to the states to determine how to achieve that amount of reduction....