( June 6, 2025, 3:13 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Environmental groups have filed a brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia opposing separate cross-motions for summary judgment filed by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the American Petroleum Institute (API) in a dispute over a final rule issued by the BOEM in 2020 that updated air quality control and reporting and compliance regulations governing oil and gas operations on the Outer Continental Shelf. The groups contend that “Defendants’ cramped reading” of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act “is contrary to the plain language and legislative history of the statute, and the Final Rule does not even fulfill the most constrained interpretation of OCSLA.”...