Petitioners Revive Case Over Trump Ozone Limits After Lengthy EPA Review

Democratic-led states and environmentalists are restarting their appellate challenge to the Trump EPA’s 2020 ozone standards, targeting the prior administration’s procedural and policy decisions to retain the 2015 standards while criticizing the agency’s decision to keep “secondary” welfare-based limits the same as health-based standards. After the Biden administration’s lengthy reconsideration that eventually led to EPA deciding to retain the 2020 standards, briefing has now resumed in State of New York, et al. v. EPA, et al ., before the U.S...