The Environmental Protection Agency won’t have to halt broad implementation of its traveling ozone rule during litigation, according to an order issued Monday by a D.C. Circuit panel.
Judges at the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit didn’t find a reason for the freeze, since petitioners “have not satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending court review.”
The state of Utah brought the petition to the D.C. Circuit in June, aiming for a court examination of stringent ozone pollution rules that govern pollution that wanders into other states.
What’s known as the Good Neighbor rule ...