EPA, Advocates Seek To Transfer Texas Haze Air Plan Suit To D.C. Circuit

EPA and environmentalists are ramping up their push for judges to transfer to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit litigation over the agency's haze air plan for Texas, while the state and utilities want the case heard in the 5th Circuit -- a fight over court venue seen as a test for the future of the haze program. In a recent filing in the 5th Circuit on EPA's behalf, the Department of Justice (DOJ) argues...