Supreme Court Ozone Ruling Irrelevant to Missouri Case, EPA Says

A Supreme Court-ordered hold on the Environmental Protection Agency’s air quality standards rule shouldn’t erase the agency’s rejection of Missouri’s ozone emissions plan, the EPA said in a letter to a federal appeals court.

The issue before the high court was separate from the agency’s disapproval of Missouri’s air quality standards implementation plan despite what the state has claimed, the EPA told the U.S. Court for the Eighth Circuit Friday.

The Supreme Court temporarily halted a part of the federal “good neighbor” rule that governs wandering ozone pollution last month, granting an emergency stay request in Ohio v. EPA. ...