Court Scraps EPA Denial Of Kentucky Interstate Air Plan, Boosting GNP Foes

December 6, 2024
A federal appeals court has vacated EPA’s disapproval of Kentucky’s state implementation plan (SIP) for interstate ozone that the agency used to bring the state into its Good Neighbor Plan (GNP) -- the first merits ruling in the many parallel suits over the plan, and one that will boost its critics -- likely including the incoming Trump administration. In its Dec. 6 decision , a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in Commonwealth...


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