"A Washington appeals court on Friday ordered the Biden administration to rewrite sweeping new pipeline safety rules issued in 2022.
In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against the most recent standards finalized by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
In its ruling, siding with the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA), the court invoked the governing statute for the agency, the Administrative Procedure Act, which requires the regulations to conduct a cost-benefit analysis for new rules. Writing for the majority, Judge Florence Pan, an appointee of President Biden, said the government’s cost-benefit analysis did not properly lay out why the benefits exceed the cost, the main source of the trade group’s objection."
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