On Thursday, Boyden Gray & Associates argued on behalf of Kansas and Nebraska in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The case is a challenge to EPA’s vehicular emissions model, MOVES2014. The model produces erroneous emissions estimates that will make it harder for States to comply with EPA’s air quality standards. The States argued before Judges Millett, Wilkins, and Randolph…
On behalf of the States of Kansas and Nebraska, Boyden Gray & Associates filed the final briefs yesterday in a challenge to EPA’s new vehicular emissions model, MOVES2014. The States are required to use the computer model when they prepare State Implementation Plans for EPA’s air quality standards, but EPA did not give notice and accept comments on the model…
Boyden Gray & Associates has completed briefing and arguing a challenge to an EPA rule governing the certification of new vehicles, on behalf of biofuel producers and environmental organizations. On February 12, Boyden Gray & Associates filed the final version of the Petitioners’ opening brief and reply brief in Energy Future Coalition v. EPA (D.C. Cir. No. 14-1123), challenging EPA’s criteria for approving alternative test fuels…
On July 2, Boyden Gray & Associates filed the Petitioners’ opening brief in Kansas v. EPA (D.C. Cir. No. 14-1268), challenging EPA’s new vehicular emissions model. In the challenged rule, which was promulgated without notice and an opportunity for comment, EPA requires States to use its new model, MOVES2014, in developing state implementation plans for compliance with National Ambient Air Quality Standards under the Clean Air…