D.C. Circuit schedules oral argument in air monitoring suit

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has scheduled Nov. 7 oral argument to hear environmentalists' suit seeking to force greater opportunity for public scrutiny of states' air quality monitoring plans. In Sierra Club v. EPA, et al. , environmentalists are suing the agency over its March 2016 Obama-era rule revising states' emissions monitoring requirements. The group claims the rule robs the public of the opportunity for full notice-and-comment on states' monitoring programs by unlawfully excluding...