Good Neighbor Plan Impasse Leaves Unresolved Interstate Air Questions

The Biden EPA’s frustrations in trying to regulate interstate air pollution via its stayed Good Neighbor Plan (GNP) portend a challenging future for the agency and “downwind” states in meeting federal air quality standards and fulfilling the Clean Air Act’s interstate air provisions, requirements that remain despite the GNP’s problems, sources say. The GNP remains stayed nationwide by EPA after the agency determined that the Supreme Court’s June decision freezing the rule in much of the country was too difficult...