( April 4, 2025, 3:26 PM EDT) -- GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A federal judge in Michigan has denied a motion by the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency seeking to stay a case in which a business advocacy group and an oil and gas association challenge the constitutionality of the methane waste emissions charge levied under the Clean Air Act (CAA), ruling that recent legislation disapproving the EPA’s rule “would appear to invoke well-worn principles of justiciability, particularly that of mootness.” Meanwhile, the judge granted environmental groups permission to intervene....