Judges skeptical of case against Obama smog rule
(WorldNews Environment)

Federal judges on Tuesday expressed skepticism at a challenge by industry groups and Republican states against the Obama administration´s major 2015 regulation on smog-forming ozone pollution. Central to the challengers´ arguments, presented Tuesday to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, is that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should have been more lenient in its 2015 rule because some states and areas have high ozone levels either naturally or because of pollution blows in from elsewhere - factors that they cannot control. `Our case is about the requirement of a reasoned rulemaking process. And here, that process was deficient,` Dominic Draye, solicitor...