EJ Lawyer Warns EPA ‘Colluded’ To Draft Weak ‘Contingency Measures’ Rule

An attorney representing California environmental justice (EJ) groups is charging that EPA “colluded” with state and local air regulators to draft an illegally weak Clean Air Act (CAA) policy and draft guidance for “contingency measures” (CMs) that local agencies must implement when they are failing to make sufficient progress on attaining air quality standards, laying out a potential future lawsuit against the agency. “Following the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal’s 2021 rejection of EPA’s first attempt to weaken the contingency...