EPA Climate Finding Details Legal Defense For Rejecting Science Hearing

EPA's just-released final finding that greenhouse gases (GHGs) endanger public health rejects industry's petition for an "on the record" hearing under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) to review the science behind the document, outlining a detailed justification for why the finding process should not be subject to the APA that could serve as a legal defense for the agency should industry sue over the rejection of its request. The finding is prompting at least one conservative group to threaten a...