WASHINGTON, June 26 (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s bid to withdraw 2024 soot limits for power plants and factories set during the previous administration.
Under President Joe Biden, the EPA said the tighter annual standard of 9 micrograms per cubic meter would avoid more than 800,000 cases of asthma symptoms, 2,000 hospital visits and 4,500 premature deaths. The EPA under President Donald Trump last year asked the appeals court to invalidate the Biden EPA standard saying the agency had acted unreasonably by failing to consider costs.
(Reporting by David Shepardson)
