Environmentalists sue EPA over Phoenix, California ozone plans

The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and Center for Environmental Health are challenging EPA’s failure to find that the Phoenix metropolitan area and Mariposa County, CA, are violating federal ozone standards, in an effort to force the agency to “bump up” the areas to worsened “nonattainment” status. In the April 8 suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the groups say EPA has missed a Clean Air Act deadline to determine if the areas...