EPA continues to attack states’ standing in landfill methane suit

April 5, 2019
EPA’s final reply brief ahead of oral arguments in a case where states and environmentalists are trying to force the agency to speed implementation of an Obama-era landfill methane rule is continuing to attack states’ standing to bring the suit and seeking to differentiate their claims here from Supreme Court precedent. Attorneys representing the agency say in an April 2 final reply in State of California, et al. v. EPA that the extension of the “special solicitude” the high...


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