STATE AIR OFFICIALS SUE EPA OVER AIRCRAFT ENGINE EMISSIONS RULE

A group representing state and local air regulators has filed what may be its first direct legal challenge to an EPA rule, petitioning a federal appellate court for review of the agency's new regulations of aircraft emissions. The State and Territorial Air Pollution Program Administrators/Association of Local Air Pollution Control Officials (STAPPA/ALAPCO) filed a petition for review Feb. 21 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on EPA's final rule requiring nitrogen oxide (NOx) emission...