District Court Clears Appellate Path For Former Officials’ CASAC Challenge

A federal district court has cleared a path for former EPA science advisers to appeal the court’s partial rejection of their suit that claims the agency’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) is unlawfully constituted, once more casting a possible shadow over several reviews of federal air quality standards on which the panel is currently advising EPA. In a Nov. 2 order , Judge Timothy Kelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted plaintiffs’ request for...