Court sets EPA deadline for New York 126 petition

A federal district court has set a Sept. 13 deadline for EPA to issue a final response to New York’s landmark petition for direct regulation of hundreds of air pollution sources in other states upwind, after the agency issued a proposal to deny the petition, drawing legal threats from the state and environmentalists. In a July 25 order , Judge Jesse Furman, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, directs EPA to finalize its response...