EPA settles environmentalists’ suits over state SO2, ozone air plans

EPA has reached proposed consent decrees with environmental groups setting deadlines for the agency to determine whether areas around the country attained federal ambient air standards for sulfur dioxide (SO2), and to act on the air law compliance plans of areas in California and Colorado for achieving federal ozone standards. In a notice scheduled for publication in the Federal Register May 3, EPA announces a proposed decree to end a suit brought in federal district court in California by...