States, environmentalists oppose ‘indefinite’ pause in auto GHG suit

Nearly two dozen states, several major cities and 12 environmental groups are opposing the Biden administration’s request for an “indefinite” pause in litigation challenging the Trump administration’s rollback of vehicle greenhouse gas standards, though they say they are willing to allow for a six-month delay. While the challengers “welcome” the Biden administration’s review of the policy, “the harms resulting from these unlawfully lax standards grow larger and larger with each passing model year of vehicle sales,” says a March 1...