Court Backs Blocking New EPA Regulations
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From Times Wire Reports
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reaffirmed a decision blocking the Environmental Protection Agency from imposing tougher air pollution controls on smog and soot. In a split ruling, the court rejected the government’s appeal and kept in place a decision in May by a three-judge panel from the court overturning the new pollution regulations imposed in 1997. The rules would have required states to meet more stringent reductions in smog-causing ozone and in microscopic soot.
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