EPA, states spar over ozone NAAQS designations delay

October 19, 2018
EPA is sparring with states and environmentalists over the agency's one-year delay of designations of areas as “nonattainment” for federal ozone national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS), with the agency seeking to dismiss environmentalists' lawsuit as moot on several grounds. In an Oct. 16 filing in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit suit American Lung Association, et al. v. EPA, et al. , EPA again argues that “this case is now indisputably moot and should...


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