Supreme Court Request Seeks Freeze of Good Neighbor Ozone Rule

Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia have taken the EPA’s contentious traveling ozone standards to the US Supreme Court, asking to freeze the rule in an emergency application filed Monday.

The states are part of a thicket of petitioners in consolidated cases who have launched multiple lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency since it finalized stricter “Good Neighbor” plans this summer. Industry and states asked justices to place a stay on the rule’s implementation while lower courts decide its fate.

“The EPA’s rulemaking ignored obvious problems with its attempt to twist the Clean Air Act into a system of top-down regulation ...