January 02, 2019
A D.C. Circuit panel on Wednesday dismissed a suit brought by the American Lung Association and other health groups that challenged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's move to extend a deadline for designating smog-affected areas, saying when the EPA reversed course the matter became moot.
August 30, 2017
With the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency having recently withdrawn its proposal to extend a deadline for designating smog-affected areas, the legal challenges to the extension are now moot and should be tossed, the agency told the D.C. Circuit Tuesday.