Justices Suggest Flexible Rule for Where to Bring EPA Suits (1)

The US Supreme Court considered where industry groups and states can challenge EPA actions, suggesting the justices might come to different outcomes depending on the actions challenged.

At the heart of arguments in two different disputes on Tuesday was a statute that generally steers cases with local impact to federal circuit courts and those with national implications to the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

The question for the justices is what happens when the action has both local and national effects.

The EPA argues in the cases out of Louisiana and Oklahoma challenging agency actions under the ...