D.C. Circuit Rejects Sierra Club Suit On EPA Air Monitoring Policy ‘Tweaks’

May 31, 2019
A federal appellate court has soundly rejected Sierra Club’s suit over what the judges described says are “tweaks” to EPA air monitoring policy, dismissing one argument as time-barred, another for lack of legal standing, and denying a third claim outright because the group failed to adequately justify it. The unanimous May 31 decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was expected, after at least two of the judges at Dec...


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