EDF, Partners Ask Court to Block Unlawful Suspension of BLM´s Natural Gas Waste Prevention Standards
(WorldNews Environment)

(San Francisco - July 28, 2017) Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and 16 other national, tribal and local public health and conservation groups are asking a federal court to block Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke`s suspension of standards that would prevent the substantial waste of natural gas on public and tribal lands. The groups for description judgment last night with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, arguing that Secretary Zinke`s abrupt decision to indefinitely delay the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) standards - without seeking public input or assessing the consequences - should be declared invalid because it was not authorized under the law. `Secretary Zinke...