ENVIRONMENTALISTS EYE SIP LAWSUIT TO REDUCE POLLUTION FASTER THAN CAIR

Environmentalists are threatening litigation they claim could force some large pollution sources to make greater and faster reductions of a key ozone-forming pollutant compared to EPA's clean air interstate rule (CAIR) -- even though the litigation is not directly challenging that regulation. In a March 23 letter to EPA Acting Administrator Steve Johnson, the Center for Biological Diversity and Valley Watch allege that EPA has improperly failed to require 22 states and the District of Columbia to revise state pollution...