"EPA and the Justice Department have won court approval for changes to a 2015 consent decree that will give a manufacturer of a key tire product years longer to install pollution controls, brushing aside objections raised by members of an Oklahoma Indian tribe living near one of the company's plants.

U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Friot of the Western District of Oklahoma signed off Friday on the amendment to the settlement with Continental Carbon Co.

The Justice Department lodged the amendment late last December. Friot's approval came the same day DOJ attorneys had moved to make it final."

Sean Reilly reports for Greenwire May 30, 2018. [2]