Agency, Trade Group: Case Challenging Emissions Rule For Offshore Drilling Fails

( April 22, 2025, 2:05 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the American Petroleum Institute (API) filed separate cross-motions for summary judgment in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, arguing that plaintiff environmental groups lack standing to challenge a final rule that updated air quality control and reporting and compliance regulations governing oil and gas operations on the Outer Continental Shelf that BOEM issued in 2020 because the final rule “tracks BOEM’s specific statutory authority” under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to safeguard onshore air quality....