Mealey's (December 30, 2020, 10:56 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on Dec. 21 filed a brief in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals contending that it should uphold a lower court’s summary judgment ruling that environmental groups lacked standing to pursue claims challenging the BLM’s decision to rescind the 2016 methane waste prevention rule that pertains to the venting and flaring of methane in hydraulic fracturing operations (California v. U.S. Bureau of Land Management, et al., Nos. 20-16157 and 20-16158, 9th Cir.)....