EPA Rejects States’ Bid To Advance Ozone NAAQS Suit As Review Proceeds

EPA is pushing back against six states’ bid to proceed with litigation over the Trump administration’s December decision to retain federal ozone standards, arguing that the intervening states, which support the Trump decision, will not be harmed by an abeyance the agency seeks while it reconsiders and possibly tightens the limits. In a filing last week with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in New York, et al. v. EPA, et al., states intervening...