Twenty-four Republican attorneys general are challenging the Biden administration’s new rule to limit methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, arguing that EPA overstepped its authority.
Led by Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond, the states filed their lawsuit last week in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seeking to block the regulation, which serves as a key part of the White House plan to tackle climate change.
The rule is a “blatant attack on America’s oil and gas industry,” Drummond said. He added that if the regulation goes into effect, it would “cost Oklahoma countless jobs, devastate the oil and gas industry, and force us to pay significantly higher energy prices.”
The states’ lawsuit follows a separate legal challenge filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on March 8, the day the rule was published in the Federal Register.
