( January 8, 2025, 8:28 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — New York and several other states and municipalities filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which has filed a merits brief asking the justices to vacate a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals order and remand with instructions to transfer a case regarding the agency’s decisions to deny several small refineries’ requests for exemptions from the Clean Air Act’s (CAA) Renewable Fuel Standard program to the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals....