EPA agrees to act on New Jersey air plans

EPA has agreed to a deal with environmentalists setting deadlines to act on several air quality plans from New Jersey limiting ozone, sulfur dioxide (SO2), fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) that the agency failed to address within statutory timelines. In a notice published in the Federal Register Oct. 31 , EPA announces the proposed consent decree reached in Our Children’s Earth Foundation v. U.S. EPA , a suit filed Feb. 2 in the U.S. District Court...