9th Circuit Mulls Suit Over EPA Approval Of California PM Attainment Delay

A 9th Circuit panel is scheduled to hear oral arguments in environmentalists’ challenge to EPA’s approval of a one-year extension of the attainment date for California’s San Joaquin Valley area to meet the 1997 annual national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) for fine particulate matter (PM2.5). A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit is scheduled to hear arguments in the case, Little Manila Rising, et al. v. EPA, et al. , on Nov. 19...