As Biden EPA Reviews Texas Air Plan, State Wages Fight On Court Venue

The Biden administration is reviewing and might reverse the Trump EPA’s approvals of Dallas- and Houston-area air quality plans that drop protections against increases in air pollution known as “backsliding,” while Texas and its industry supporters fight the agency to keep litigation over the approvals in a regional federal appeals court. A list of Trump EPA actions the new administration intends to review, released just ahead of President Joe Biden’s inauguration Jan. 20, includes the agency’s April 6 approval of...