Local air regulators in Southern California are claiming that the Trump EPA's cursory analysis of the conventional emission co-benefits of Obama-era vehicle greenhouse gas standards is “illogical on its own terms,” amplifying legal arguments by states and environmentalists that the agency's decision to weaken the standards was unlawful.
Environmentalists and other plaintiffs are considering asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review the Trump EPA's policy barring any recipient of an EPA grant from serving on one of its many scientific advisory committees after a federal district court dismissed their suit.
EPA and the Sierra Club are defending the agency’s right to ask courts for injunctive relief that forces facilities to impose air pollution controls for years-old violations of Clean Air Act new source review (NSR) permit mandates, as they fight a utility sector push to rehear a ruling that broadly upheld EPA’s power to seek such relief.
The new suit targets EPA's approval of Ohio's 2018 list of impaired waters, but it echoes environmentalists' failed effort to force action based on the agency's approval of the 2016 list.
The state is threatening EPA with a lawsuit to force a response to its Clean Air Act petition asking the agency to regulate air pollution sources in nine upwind states.
Environmentalists might pursue procedural challenges to EPA’s proposed narrower Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction policy that allege Administrative Procedure Act (APA) violations and other non-substantive issues, believing such attacks might win favor from conservative judges who could otherwise vote to uphold the rule on its merits.
EPA's Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) has dismissed as moot a contentious Clean Water Act (CWA) permit challenge that had emerged as a test of the agency's directive against “sue-and-settle” practices, leaving a federal appellate suit as environmentalists' only means of maintaining judicial oversight over the permit.
More organizations representing various industries are suing EPA over its 2019 renewable fuel standard, with the rule’s compliance waivers for small refiners likely to feature as a key issue.
A Michigan roads commission asking the Supreme Court to let it challenge an EPA “objection” to a state-crafted Clean Water Act (CWA) permit is decrying as a “shell game” the agency's claim that such objections are not judicially reviewable final action, and arguing that the government inadvertently admitted that its actions amount to a final “veto.”
EPA says a municipal wastewater association is overstating its accusation that the agency lied about internal deliberations in a suit over “blending” practices.
