Rejecting EPA Requests, D.C. Circuit Continues Suits Over GNP, EtO Rules

The D.C. Circuit has denied a pair of EPA requests seeking to pause litigation over key Biden-era air rules that officials are expected to reverse, issuing orders requiring the agency to file a brief in a suit challenging the Good Neighbor Plan (GNP) rule while also scheduling arguments in a suit over a contested ethylene oxide (EtO) sterilizers rule. In a Feb. 21 order , Judges Florence Pan, J. Michelle Childs and Bradley Garcia -- all Democratic appointees -- deny...