EPA Stance In Waiver Case Could Curb Environmentalists’ Future Standing

The Trump administration’s decision to continue opposing refiners’ standing to challenge EPA’s years-old preemption waiver for California’s auto rules is seen as officials playing the “long game” that could boost the administration’s expected claims that environmentalists lack standing to sue over pending waiver revocations. The administration’s recent brief in Supreme Court litigation over the issue “is remarkable because it is a rare instance in which the Trump administration is willing to play the long game rather than succumb to the...