D.C. Circuit Denies EPA Call To Stay HFC Case With Key Constitutional Claim

The D.C. Circuit is denying the Trump EPA’s request to pause litigation over an agency rule to implement a phasedown of climate-warming hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), after several industry groups argued that the court should offer clarity on a key constitutional challenge to the underlying HFC control law. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied the EPA request in a brief Feb. 13 order in IGas Holdings, et al. v. EPA, et al....