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American Public Health Association v. EPA

Geography
🇺🇸 United States / District of Columbia
Year
2026
Document Type
Litigation
Part of
American Public Health Association v. EPA

About this case

Filing year
2026
Status
Petition for review filed.
Geography
🇺🇸 United States → District of Columbia
Docket number
26-1037
Court/admin entity
United States → United States Federal Courts → United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (D.C. Cir.)
Case category
Federal Statutory Claims (US) → Clean Air Act (US) → Environmentalist Lawsuits (US)
Principal law
United States → Administrative Procedure Act (APA)United States → Clean Air Act (CAA)
At issue
Challenges to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s final rule rescinding the 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding under the Clean Air Act and repealing all greenhouse gas emission standards for motor vehicles and engines.

Documents

Filing Date
Document
Type
Search results
02/18/2026
Petition for review filed.
Seventeen public health and environmental organizations filed the first lawsuit challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) final rule rescinding the 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding under the Clean Air Act and repealing all greenhouse gas emission standards for motor vehicles and engines for model years 2012 to 2027 and beyond.
Petition
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Summary

Challenges to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s final rule rescinding the 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding under the Clean Air Act and repealing all greenhouse gas emission standards for motor vehicles and engines.