Groups Sue Trump, EPA For Tapping CAA Rule To Impose Air Pollution Exemption Order

( October 24, 2025, 2:18 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Several nonprofit and grassroots environmental organizations are suing President Donald J. Trump and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in federal court in the District of Columbia over a recent federal proclamation that exempts for two years 50 chemical manufacturing plants from requirements to control and monitor hazardous, cancer-causing air pollutants, alleging the president is overstepping the bounds of his lawful authority and violating the Clean Air Act (CAA)....