Environmentalists fault EPA bid to delay ozone suit

Environmentalists are criticizing EPA's latest efforts to justify holding litigation over the Obama-era ozone standards in continuing abeyance, saying it undermines their effort to challenge the adequacy of the standards' stringency -- though they stop short of asking the court to change the suit's posture. “The abeyance heavily burdens their right to seek judicial relief on their claims as petitioners that, among other things, the 2015 standards are illegally and arbitrarily weak,” they said in a July 20 letter to...