EPA Pandemic Enforcement Policy Draws Environmental Lawsuit (1)

Environmental groups are asking a federal court to force the EPA to respond to their petition for increased transparency on the agency’s decision to ease some enforcement amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Justice Health Alliance, Public Citizen, and other groups filed suit Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

“During a pandemic that is hitting people with heart and lung disease the hardest, it is senseless to push forward a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy for polluters that will allow them to make our air and water dirtier without ...