Supreme Court Lets Fuel Producers Challenge California Emissions . . . The justices in a 7-2 ruling overturned a lower court’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit by a Valero Energy VLO N subsidiary and fuel industry groups The lower court had concluded that the plaintiffs lacked the required legal standing to challenge a 2022 U S Environmental Protection Agency decision to let California set its own regulations
Fuel firms can challenge California’s emission limits, supreme court rules Fossil fuel companies are able to challenge California’s ability to set stricter standards reducing the amount of polluting coming from cars, the US supreme court has ruled in a case that is set to unrav- el one of the key tools used to curb planet-heating emissions in re- cent years