Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Air Act Venue Cases Over GNP, RFS Rules

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear appeals in a trio of cases over the Clean Air Act’s venue provisions that govern when rules are “national” in scope and must be litigated in the District of Columbia Circuit, or “local” in scope and must instead be heard in regional courts. Any ruling from the court could upend the decades of precedent set by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which has generally reviewed most such cases. In...