Environmentalists, States Attack Legality Of ‘Do-Nothing’ Aircraft GHG Rule

Environmentalists and a California-led state coalition are attacking EPA’s rule adopting internationally agreed aircraft greenhouse gas standards that maintain status quo emissions levels, charging in new legal filings that the agency violated the Clean Air Act by failing to fully consider statutory factors required for regulation. In opening briefs filed Feb. 28 in State of California, et al. v. EPA , pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, states and environmentalists say the Trump-era...