EPA Seeks To Dismiss Aircraft GHG Rule Deadline Suit, Citing Recent Duty

EPA is urging a federal court to dismiss environmentalists' scaled-back deadline suit seeking to spur the agency to issue greenhouse gas standards for aircraft, arguing it has not “unreasonably delayed” the rules because its formal requirement to issue them was only triggered by last month's endangerment finding for the sector. “Plaintiffs cannot pursue an unreasonable delay claim based on a duty that had not been triggered at the time they filed suit, and that even now has existed, at most,...