Northeast states back suit over interstate ozone petition denials

New Jersey and New York are intervening in support of an appellate suit filed by Delaware, Maryland, and environmental groups that asks a federal appellate court to vacate EPA’s denial of Clean Air Act section 126 petitions that seek to force the agency to impose source-specific pollution cuts in upwind states. In an April 12 intervenor brief , the Empire State, Garden State, and New York City ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to...