EPA Defends COVID-19 Enforcement Discretion, Seeks Dismissal Of Suit

June 3, 2020
EPA is for the first time detailing the legal basis for its unprecedented enforcement discretion policy that might allow for lapses in routine monitoring and reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic, in a brief arguing for dismissal of a suit filed by environmentalists seeking an emergency rule to publish details of entities that benefit from the discretion. In a series of May 29 filings with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Natural Resources Defense Council...


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