Court's Air Rule Deadlines Add To Growing EPA Budget, Staffing Problem

March 23, 2017
A federal district court has issued an order setting a near three-year deadline for EPA to issue 13 overdue air toxics rules days after the same court imposed a similar mandate for issuing 20 other delayed air toxics rules, creating a growing problem for the agency to meet the legal deadlines at a time of massive proposed budget and staffing cuts. In a March 22 opinion in Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, et al. v. Scott Pruitt , Judge Christopher...


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