Climate Groups Drop EPA Suit After New Draft Climate Regulations

Climate activists have dismissed their suit to compel the US Environmental Protection Agency to use a chemicals law to phase out the production of greenhouse gases, in light of the agency’s new climate regulations.

Two nonprofit groups—Climate Protection and Restoration Initiative and Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions—along with several scientists petitioned the EPA in June to use the authority granted by the 2016 Toxic Substances Control Act amendments to conclude that ongoing manufacture, processing, distribution, use, and disposal of chemicals such as methane and carbon dioxide present an “unreasonable risk of injury to health and the environment.”

The groups sued ...