EPA Fights Industry Coalition's Bid To Intervene In Ozone NAAQS Delay Suit

摘要

EPA is urging a federal district court to reject an industry coalition's bid to intervene in environmentalists' lawsuit trying to force a court-ordered deadline for the agency to review its ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS), arguing that a deadline would not create harm for industry that would justify intervention. The agency says that industry's concern over a rushed and flawed rulemaking under a potentially tight deadline is speculative, and not grounds for formal intervention. EPA says it does not take a position on whether industry groups should be granted a more restrictive "permissive intervention" in the case, and also would not oppose industry participation in the suit in filing "friends of the court" amicus curiae briefs.