Partner Mark Barron is quoted in an article published by Bloomberg Law on July 20, 2020. The article, “Court’s Ruling Against Trump Elevates Debate on Climate Metric,” reports on a California judge’s ruling that strikes down the Trump administration’s rollback of Obama-era methane emissions standards affecting oil and gas infrastructure on public and tribal lands. In her opinion, the judge criticized the Bureau of Land Management’s use of a metric called the social costs of methane. However, Barron notes that other courts have rejected environmentalist groups’ push for the federal agency to use a climate metric, rather than the social metric, in oil and gas leasing decisions.
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