Fracking Industry Group Moves To Intervene In Methane Rule Case In California

(April 4, 2018, 2:04 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The American Petroleum Institute (API) on March 30 moved in California federal court to intervene in a dispute over the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) decision to repeal regulations pertaining to methane waste related to hydraulic fracturing, arguing that API’s members will be “directly damaged if the invalidated provisions of the Hydraulic Fracturing Rule were to take effect” (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.)....