EPA faces second suit over oil & gas smog limits

December 13, 2019
Environmentalists are continuing their legal campaign over EPA’s alleged failure to reduce smog-forming pollution from oil and gas drilling, threatening a suit intended to improve air quality by forcing the agency to require officials in Colorado, California and Arizona to reduce pollution from fracked oil and gas. The Dec. 11 notice of intent to sue (NOI) from the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Center for Environmental Health says “EPA has failed to meet statutory deadlines to take legally...


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