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UPDATE: March 8, 2021: The U.S. EPA has asked a court to vacate the rule meant to delay implementation of 2016 landfill methane emission guidelines and send it back to the agency to review. The agency filed an unopposed motion in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on March 4, saying it would issue a federal plan by May 2021 for any state that does not have an approved plan for implementing the regulation.
The EPA argued vacating the case would not cause “deleterious effects on public health and the environment” because it would not affect the timeline for establishing the federal plan by that date. The EPA under the Trump administration proposed a federal plan in August 2019, giving itself two years to promulgate necessary state plans.