Industry, States Cite High Court Deference, Stay Order In GNP Opposition

Industry groups and mainly Republican states are looking to use recent Supreme Court administrative law precedents in their effort to vacate EPA’s Good Neighbor Plan (GNP) interstate air rule, citing in final appellate merits briefs both the high court’s elimination of agencies’ judicial deference and its ruling staying the GNP itself. In briefs filed Aug. 22 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in State of Utah, et al. v. EPA, et al. , industry...