Environmentalists Attack EPA Approach To Ozone Control Technology

The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) is attacking the legality of EPA’s approach to approving reasonably available control technology (RACT), a stringent form of emissions control required in the Northeast and areas in nonattainment with federal air rules, in a new brief targeting Pennsylvania’s air quality controls as too weak. In Center for Biological Diversity v. EPA, et al. , now in briefing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, CBD is seeking remand of EPA’s approval...