Environmentalists sue EPA to force action on San Joaquin ozone plan

Environmentalists are suing EPA to force the agency to approve or disapprove a California air quality plan aimed at attaining the agency's 2008 ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS), after the agency missed a statutory deadline to act. In its suit filed March 14 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the Association of Irritated Residents (AIR), a California environmental group, seeks to force EPA action on the state's plan for attaining the 2008 ozone...