(February 26, 2018, 3:19 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California on Feb. 22 denied a motion to transfer venue of a dispute over the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) decision to repeal regulations pertaining to methane waste related to hydraulic fracturing and granted a preliminary injunction, finding that the BLM’s decision was “arbitrary and capricious” (Sierra Club, et al. v. Ryan Zinke, et al., No. 18-524, California v. United States Bureau of Land Management, et al., No. 18-521, N.D. Calif.)....