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Letting the Air Out
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Business New Haven
11/15/1999
By: Michele Beck
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - American businesses just saved $45 billion, according to the U.S. chamber. That is how much it would have cost businesses to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] proposed clean-air regulations.
The D.C. Court of Appeals recently agreed with the chamber and refused to reconsider an earlier decision ousting the EPA's revised Clean Air Act regulations.
"Once again, the court agreed with American business that the EPA standards were simply pulled out of thin air, and are not based on sound science," said U.S. Chamber President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue. "It's a victory for all businesses and a blow to the EPA's efforts to extend its regulatory fingers where they don't belong."
The original suit was filed by the national Chamber Litigation Center, the legal arm of the chamber, and other business groups in July 1997. The suit challenged the EPA's revised National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter and ozone. In May of this year the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled in the chamber's favor. Although the EPA appealed the ruling, it failed to convince the court.
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