5th Circuit Changes Course, Sends Texas Air Quality Assessment Back To EPA

( May 23, 2025, 9:36 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — Much like the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in its attainment designations of two Texas counties for the 2010 national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for sulfur dioxide over the last decade, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has changed course and granted petitions for review and rehearing filed by the state and several power companies on the agency’s latest nonattainment decision....