Government,
Civil Litigation
Sep. 1, 2017
Judge’s ruling will keep new Trump oil and gas rules intact
Attorney General Xavier Becerra won a Pyrrhic victory this week in a suit claiming the U.S. Department of the Interior illegally suspended an Obama-era rule giving greater oil and gas royalties to states.
Attorney General Xavier Becerra won a Pyrrhic victory this week in a suit claiming the U.S. Department of the Interior illegally suspended an Obama-era rule giving greater oil and gas royalties to states.
U.S. District Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte of San Francisco agreed with Becerra and New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke violated the Administrative Procedures Act when he delayed the so-cal...
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