Judge Rejects DOJ Effort To Set Precedent Barring Strict Citizen Suit Deals

A federal district judge is rejecting the Justice Department’s (DOJ) attempt to set a precedent blocking environmental groups from negotiating stricter settlement terms than the department prefers in Clean Air Act (CAA) enforcement cases, even if the groups are pursuing the alleged violation as part of a citizen suit. In a Dec. 3 order in the decade-old case, United States, et al. v. DTE Energy Company, et al ., Judge Bernard Friedman of the U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan...