D.C. Circuit sets schedule in air toxics reclassification case

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is setting a briefing schedule in environmentalists’ lawsuit against the first Trump administration’s rule allowing “major” sources of air toxics to reclassify as more lightly-regulated “area” sources, leaving related questions over facilities’ “potential to emit” (PTE) for a separate case. In a Nov. 12 order in California Communities Against Toxics, et al. v. EPA , the court sets a schedule that requires environmentalists’ opening brief by Jan. 23 and...