Citing Sessions Memo, DOJ Retroactively Cancels Harley 'Mitigation' Project

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking to retroactively cancel part of a 2016 Clean Air Act settlement it entered into with Harley Davidson that required the company to pay $3 million to a third-party group to execute an emissions “mitigation” project, citing Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recent memo barring such payments. The proposed action -- which DOJ filed in federal court July 20 -- appears to provide one of the clearest indications so far of the kinds of projects...