The Environmental Defense Fund, the Center for Biological Diversity, and other groups have put forth a motion of “intervention” for a lawsuit regarding the clean truck standards in California. The EDF, Center for Biological Diversity, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Sierra Club filed the motion with the US Court of Appeals on June 29, 2023. The intervention defends the powers given to California under the Clean Air Act to set truck emissions standards that are more substantial than those of the federal government. The issue begins when the US Environmental Protection Agency decides to grant a waiver of preemption to … Continue reading Defending California’s Truck Emission Standards in the Courtroom: The Legal Frontier