Litigation: EPA urges court to dismiss COVID enforcement suit

EPA in a final filing in litigation over its COVID-19 enforcement discretion policy is urging a federal judge to dismiss environmentalists’ request to force EPA to act on their petition for an emergency rulemaking requiring the agency to quickly disclose which entities make use of the policy. EPA’s June 12 memorandum of law in the case, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), et al. v. Bodine, et al., in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, reiterates...