Appellate Judges Weigh Jurisdiction, Injury In EPA Vehicle Air Model Suit

February 11, 2016
Appellate judges at Feb. 11 oral arguments in litigation over EPA's vehicle emissions model grappled with whether the model qualifies as a judicially reviewable agency action and whether groups suing over it can prove injury from use of the model -- threshold questions that will determine whether the court also weighs the model's merits. If the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that heard the case, State of Kansas, et al. v....


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