Coalition of states, environmentalists sue EPA over aircraft GHG rule

A coalition of 12 mainly Democratic-led states and three environmental groups including Sierra Club are filing legal challenges to EPA’s final rule setting first-time greenhouse gas standards for aircraft, saying the limits are unlawfully weak and do nothing to reduce GHGs below levels that the industry would achieve without the regulation. Announcing the states’ suit filed Jan. 15 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) said, “The aviation industry...