9th Circuit Panel Appears Split On EPA ‘Contingency Measures’ Air Policy

November 19, 2025
A panel of 9th Circuit judges appears split on the merits of the agency’s approval of California air regulators’ “contingency measures” (CMs) that environmentalists say are too weak, in a test of the agency’s recent policy relaxing the terms of such measures that are required as backstops in state air plans if areas fail to attain air quality goals. During Nov. 19 oral argument in Committee for a Better Arvin, et al. v. EPA and California Air Resources Board (CARB)...

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