States, environmentalists detail legal claims over EPA’s aircraft GHG rule

June 28, 2022
Democratic states and environmentalists are renewing their claims that EPA’s first-time greenhouse gas limits on aircrafts are unlawfully weak, arguing that the agency illegally failed to consider alternative standards that would actually limit emissions beyond a business-as-usual scenario. In addition, the states in a new filing in appellate litigation over the rule argue that EPA relied on claimed benefits from the rule that are completely divorced from the Clean Air Act’s goal to protect public health and welfare from dangerous...


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