EPA Fends Off Raft Of Attacks In Defense Of Good Neighbor Plan’s Legality

EPA is defending the legality of its troubled Good Neighbor Plan (GNP) interstate ozone rule against state and industry attacks as litigation over the rule advances in federal appeals court, even as the Supreme Court could soon stay the rule nationwide after lower courts and EPA stayed its application in 12 of 23 covered states. In its June 17 opening brief in State of Utah, et al. v. EPA, et al. , agency lawyers fended off a raft of arguments...