Illinois readies early suit over EPA's 2015 ozone NAAQS designations

May 10, 2018
Illinois is preparing to sue EPA over its decision to designate a Wisconsin county as meeting the 2015 ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS), in what will likely be one of several lawsuits challenging the agency's April 30 list of areas meeting or violating the air quality limits. Lisa Madigan, Illinois attorney general (D), in a May 4 press statement threatened to sue EPA in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit once EPA publishes...


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