"‘Hail Mary Pass’: EPA Faces High Bar In Bid To Ditch Soot Rule" [1]
"The Supreme Court’s Loper Bright ruling casts an extra challenge over efforts to skirt the looming enforcement deadline for a deadly pollutant."
"The Trump administration faces steep odds in persuading a federal court to throw out landmark EPA regulations targeting a pollutant that claims thousands of lives each year, according to specialists in environmental law.
“To me, this is a Hail Mary pass,” said Victor Flatt, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University, in an interview, alluding to EPA’s decision to abandon its legal defense of a stronger soot exposure standard adopted only last year.
As the administration races to skirt a looming enforcement deadline, the bar could be higher still in the wake of last year’s Supreme Court decision that gave judges the upper hand over federal agencies in interpreting ambiguous provisions of federal law, other experts said."