A federal judge rejected environmentalists’ arguments Monday that regulators have failed to limit air pollution from offshore oil and gas operations.
Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, ruled the offshore regulator’s maintenance of decades-old regulations was justified and found environmentalists had not shown the agency was violating the law.
BOEM “reasonably decided not to revamp the various metrics before further scientific study showed both a need and a path forward,” McFadden ruled, adding the nonprofit Healthy Gulf had not identified a “workable alternative” for air regulations.
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Environmentalists expressed displeasure with the outcome and indicated the fight would continue.
