Amicus Brief on Bureau of Land Management's Waste Prevention Rule

The Institute for Policy Integrity argues that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) acted irrationally by staying the Waste Prevention Rule—which aimed to stop oil and gas companies from wasting natural gas on public lands—without considering the forgone benefits of the rule. The brief contends that the BLM's justification relied solely on cost savings, ignoring the benefits it had previously used to justify the rule's enactment, and calls for the stay to be vacated.

• The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) stayed the Waste Prevention Rule in June 2017 by indefinitely postponing compliance deadlines, leading to a lawsuit filed by California, New Mexico, and environmental organizations.
• The BLM's decision to stay the rule is argued to be irrational because it focused on cost savings as the primary justification while ignoring the forgone benefits of the Waste Prevention Rule.
• The brief asserts that the BLM cannot ignore the benefits of the Waste Prevention Rule during the stay process, given that those same benefits were used to justify the original issuance of the rule.

APA

Institute for Policy Integrity (2017). Amicus Brief on Bureau of Land Management's Waste Prevention Rule. https://policyintegrity.org/projects/update/amicus-brief-on-bureau-of-land-managements-waste-prevention-rule

Chicago

Institute for Policy Integrity. Amicus Brief on Bureau of Land Management's Waste Prevention Rule. 2017. https://policyintegrity.org/projects/update/amicus-brief-on-bureau-of-land-managements-waste-prevention-rule.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{instituteforpolicyintegrity2017amicus, author = {{Institute for Policy Integrity}}, title = {{Amicus Brief on Bureau of Land Management's Waste Prevention Rule}}, institution = {Institute for Policy Integrity}, year = {2017}, month = sep, url = {https://policyintegrity.org/projects/update/amicus-brief-on-bureau-of-land-managements-waste-prevention-rule}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }