Court sets arguments in suit testing EPA exceptional events policy

A federal appellate court is slated to hear arguments in December over environmentalists’ challenge to EPA’s increasingly significant exceptional events policy, which allows waivers from air quality requirements due to emissions from wildfire smoke and other “exceptional” events. In an Oct. 21 order , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit said it will hear oral arguments Dec. 12 in Sierra Club v. EPA, a suit that that focuses on whether the agency lawfully reclassified the Detroit...