EPA, Environmentalists At Odds Over Response Schedule For CRA Petitions

Correction appended EPA and environmental justice groups are at odds over how a federal judge should implement her sharply worded order finding the agency violated its regulatory requirements to issue preliminary findings responding to several Civil Rights Act (CRA) discrimination petitions within 180 days, with the parties split over whether EPA has a mandatory duty to respond to such petitions within the deadline. The underlying ruling in the case, Californians for Renewable Energy, et al. v. EPA , marked...