After Setback, Activists Push Suit To Force EPA Financial Assurance Rule

Environmentalists are pushing forward with a legal battle aimed at forcing EPA to issue decades-delayed Superfund financial assurance rules following a recent setback in which a federal court in California dismissed a portion of their lawsuit against EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson. The activists are preparing to file a motion in the case Sierra Club et al. v. Johnson in which they will ask the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to rule without a trial that EPA...