States, Environmentalists Defend EPA’s Disapproval Of Interstate Air Plans

States, cities and environmental groups that support EPA’s Good Neighbor Plan (GNP) interstate air rule are defending the agency’s disapproval of state interstate ozone plans that was a predicate for the rule, and are backing its efforts to move suits from regional courts to the District of Columbia. In recent amicus briefs filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, states concerned about interstate air pollution back EPA’s position in State of Arkansas, et al. v....