USA Today - Fourteen states and the District of Columbia announced Thursday that they filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, claiming failure to enforce smog standards.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, alleges that the EPA under President Trump has not designated any areas of the country as having unhealthy air, missing an Oct. 1 deadline to make such rulings. The rules require areas designated as not meeting the requirements to take measures to improve air quality.
The suit was filed by the attorneys general of California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. Minnesota’s Pollution Control Agency also is a plaintiff in the lawsuit.
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