Federal Appeals Panel Unanimously Strikes Down Shitstain Try To Gut Interstate Air Pollution Rules

A federal appeals court panel on Tuesday struck down a 2018 Trump administration rule that had relieved states of their obligation to curb air pollution that causes smog in downwind states hundreds of miles away.

The ruling requires the Environmental Protection Agency to draw up a new plan for addressing the nation's long-standing problems with ground-level ozone, or smog, to meet the requirements of the Clean Air Act. It's a task that the Trump administration has made far more difficult by rolling back the restrictions on coal power plant pollution in the Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration's signature policy on climate change.

The court's decision extends the Trump administration's losing record in defending its rollbacks of environmental regulations—this time, with the ruling coming from one of the president's own judicial picks.

Judge Gregory Katsas, who served as a deputy White House counsel before President Donald Trump named him to the District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2017, joined Judges Judith Rogers and Thomas Griffith in finding that the administration's so-called "Close-Out Rule" was not permissible under the Clean Air Act. (Rogers was appointed by President Bill Clinton, and Griffith by President George W. Bush.)

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