Mealey's (December 11, 2020, 7:50 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Attorneys at the New York University School of Law on Oct. 28 filed an amicus curiae brief in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals contending that it should reverse the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) decision to rescind the 2016 methane waste prevention rule that pertains to the venting and flaring of methane in hydraulic fracturing operations because the cost-benefit analysis performed by the BLM reveals that its decision relied on “arbitrary assumptions that are inconsistent with the record” (California v. U.S. Bureau of Land Management, et al., No. 20-16157, 9th Cir.)....