EPA Ordered to Start Enforcing Rules to Cut Ozone in 2015
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U.S. regulations for reducing ozone pollution must take effect next year, not several months later as the Environmental Protection Agency sought, a federal appeals court ruled.
The EPA improperly extended its date for states to comply with tougher air-quality standards to Dec. 31, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ruled today. The Natural Resources Defense Council sued the EPA in 2012 after the agency said the Clean Air Act gave it the authority to relax a three-year compliance timetable.