Mealey's (July 17, 2020, 10:48 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California on July 15 vacated the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) rescission of the 2016 rule that regulated venting and flaring of methane gas at hydraulic fracturing facilities, ruling that the agency “simply engineered a process to ensure a preordained conclusion” and that the rule was “defectively promulgated” (California, et al. v. David Bernhardt, et al., No. 18-5712, N.D. Calif.)....