D.C. Circuit Raises Tough Questions For Critics Of EPA’s Auto GHG Rule

Liquid fuels groups and Republican state officials appeared to face tough questioning from appellate judges during Sept. 14 oral arguments in their case challenging EPA’s latest round of vehicle greenhouse gas standards, including whether the rule illegally “mandates” greater deployment of electric vehicles (EVs). During the arguments in State of Texas, et al. v. EPA, et al. , several judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit not only focused on the substantive points of...