EPA defends bid to dismiss suit over withdrawn glider rule waiver

EPA is defending its bid for a federal appeals court to dismiss litigation filed by environmentalists and several states over its since-withdrawn enforcement waiver for glider truck emissions standards, fighting efforts by the waiver's critics to keep the suit alive by saying critics' concerns about EPA reviving the waiver later are “speculation.” In an Aug. 9 reply filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the agency also reiterates earlier arguments that because it withdrew...