Nine states are urging a New York federal court to block the EPA from using a light touch on environmental enforcement during the coronavirus pandemic.
New York, California, and others on Monday asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to issue a preliminary injunction barring the agency’s “enforcement discretion” policy.
Leaving the approach in place while the states and the Environmental Protection Agency debate its legality in court will cause irreversible harm, the states said.
The states, in a brief, said they’re likely to succeed because “the policy exceeds EPA’s statutory authority and is ...