Court Blocks E.P.A. Effort to Suspend Obama-Era Methane Rule<br />By LISA FRIEDMANJULY 3, 2017<br />WASHINGTON — Dealing a legal blow to the Trump administration, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday<br />that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot suspend an Obama-era rule to restrict methane emissions from new oil and gas wells.<br />And the effort to reverse the Clean Power Plan regulation on power plant carbon emissions<br />— the rule at the heart of Mr. Obama’s climate change agenda — could take years.<br />The administration has also used the delay tactic to stop a Food and Drug Administration rule requiring restaurants to list the calories in the food they sell and a Labor Department regulation mandating<br />that financial advisers put consumers’ best interests ahead of their own.<br />A number of other Trump administration actions to undo regulations it inherited, including a rule on grizzly bear protection<br />and another on chemical spills, are likely to receive close scrutiny from the courts.
