Supreme Court Declines To Hear Industry Suit Challenging NO_2 Standard

摘要

SThe Supreme Court has rejected the oil industry's request to hear an appeal of a federal appeals court ruling upholding EPA's nitrogen dioxide (NO2) national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS), the second of two recent decisions in which the high court has declined to hear industry suits claiming the NAAQS are too strict. The April 1 decision rejecting the American Petroleum Institute's (API) petition for a writ of certiorari to hear the NO2 NAAQS suit comes after the high court Jan. 22 similarly denied without comment a lead smelting company's push to review a U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruling upholding EPA's sulfur dioxide standard. In both cases industry argued that EPA's standards were stricter than the Clean Air Act requires.