Mealey's (August 30, 2017, 2:37 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A 2-1 panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 28 affirmed a federal judge in California’s ruling approving a settlement between two environmental groups and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that extended the deadline for which the agency must make designations on an area’s emissions of sulfur dioxide, holding that the extension of the deadline does not adversely impact claims brought by states saying the agency’s delay in making those decisions is harmful (Sierra Club, et al. v. North Dakota, et al., No. 15-15894, 9th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 16400)....