D.C. Circuit Ozone Ruling Likely To Complicate, Delay States' Air Planning

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit's recent ruling scrapping large parts of EPA's policy for revoking old ozone standards will complicate and delay states' efforts to craft plans for attaining the standards, sources say, highlighted by the fact California must now overhaul many of its air compliance plans. A former EPA air official says the agency “will have to write another rule for what states are to do instead, which may or may not get...