Environmental Groups, Fossil Fuel Sector Challenge EPA Air Rule

Both environmental groups and the oil and gas industry are challenging the EPA’s final rule that went into effect earlier this year eliminating the agency’s human health cost-benefit analysis in its rulemaking, which the groups allege could result in more air pollution.

The Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club and three other petitioners all asked the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Monday to review the Environmental Protection Agency’s January final rule, which EDF argues “establishes weak and ineffective pollution limits for nitrogen oxide” pollution, which is a big part of soot and ...