Rejecting EPA, Appellate Court Suspends Briefing In NSPS Litigation

Rejecting requests from EPA and its supporters, a federal appellate court has suspended briefing in litigation challenging EPA's greenhouse gas rule for new power plants, giving state and industry petitioners time to consolidate their existing facial challenges with any new challenges they may seek to bring over the agency's recent denials of administrative reconsideration petitions. “The briefing schedule is hereby suspended,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said in a June 24 per curium...