Fighting ‘Good Neighbors': Traveling Ozone Litigation Explained

Critical standards that govern the annual spread of one of the EPA’s top-priority air pollutants could be on the chopping block as litigation brought by states and industry proceeds in courts across the US.

There’s a lot at stake should the so-called “Good Neighbor” program be halted for years or tossed entirely, which challengers say is what should happen to rules they argue are flawed and too troublesome to implement. The two-part program is being challenged in a thicket of cases across regional circuits, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and the US Supreme Court. ...