A New York federal judge won’t resolve a challenge to the Trump administration’s pandemic-tied environmental enforcement policy as quickly as plaintiffs had hoped.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday granted the government’s request for more time to respond to environmentalists’ claims.
The lawsuit from the Natural Resources Defense Council and other groups challenges the Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement that companies won’t face penalties if precautions related to the coronavirus pandemic caused them to fall short of certain requirements to report and monitor pollution.
The challengers want to force the EPA to respond to ...
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