Countering EPA, GOP States Ask Justices To Take Up GNP ‘Venue’ Question

Oklahoma and Utah are urging the Supreme Court to use their suit over EPA’s Good Neighbor Plan (GNP) to resolve when the Clean Air Act allows suits over rules and other actions in regional circuit courts, saying the agency’s bid to decide that subject via a different case “threatens to excise the states” from arguments over a “core” issue of federalism. In a reply brief filed May 30 in State of Oklahoma, et al., v. EPA, et al. , the...