States’ legal challenge to revoked emissions control waivers should be dismissed because the proper legislative process was followed, the government argued.
“California lost a vote in Congress. That does not violate the law,” the Environmental Protection Agency said in its motion filed Sept. 19 with the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
California and several other states sued the EPA in June, claiming the Congressional Review Act was improperly used to block state emissions updates because the law can only affect federal rules, which the orders were not.
Congress directed the EPA ...