Environmental groups are bringing the Interior Department to court to force the agency to update its air quality regulations for offshore oil and gas development.
Healthy Gulf and others claim Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has failed to modernize standards that have not been overhauled in more than four decades.
“The Bureau has a legal duty to regulate air emissions from offshore oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere,” the groups said in their lawsuit filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
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“Yet the Bureau continues to follow rules that were adopted in 1980 and have been only minimally updated since that time,” the groups said.
