District Court Vacates DOT’s Highway GHG Performance Measure

A federal district court in Texas has vacated the Transportation Department’s (DOT) greenhouse gas performance measure for states and regional planners, agreeing with opponents’ call to vacate the measure because it is “unauthorized by the statute.” “Administrative agencies may only do what Congress authorizes them to do,” Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas writes in a March 27 opinion , accompanied by a judgement in State of Texas, et al. v....