Under the policy, the EPA will not penalize companies for violating routine compliance monitoring and some other rules — provided the EPA agrees COVID-19 was the cause. New York led eight other liberal-leaning states in ... [+] filing a lawsuit against the EPA's "non-enforcement" policy, first announced on March 26. While the two lawsuits are similar, according to an NRDC attorney, the states’ lawsuit goes further than the NRDC one. “The states’ case argues that the policy is unlawful and asks the court to invalidate it.”The EPA would not comment directly. “The Temporary Policy clearly states that regulated parties must ‘make every effort to comply with their environmental compliance obligations’,” she wrote in the emails.

Source: Forbes May 15, 2020 17:26 UTC