DOJ SEEKS TO EXPAND D.C. CIRCUIT PLAN THAT MAY LIMIT STANDING

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which hears many direct legal challenges of EPA and other agencies' regulations, to expand a procedural plan that observers say will limit environmentalists and other "non-regulated" parties' ability to challenge federal agency rules. DOJ says that the court should extend the new requirements on standing to both regulated and non-regulated parties. DOJ also urges the court to require groups to demonstrate their...