Only eight business days before oral argument, EPA seeks to delay the argument indefinitely on the thin excuse that it wants time to consider whether to reconsider the rule at issue. EPA has failed to provide the requisite “extraordinary cause” for postponing the argument.

Over 120 health, environmental and community organizations sent a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives asking them to oppose the “Ozone Standards Implementation Act” (H.R. 806). If passed this legislation would systematically weaken the Clean Air Act and undermine Americans’ 46-year right to healthy air based on medical science, and delay life-saving health standards already years overdue.