State AGs urge lawmakers to oppose NAAQS reform legislation

Attorneys general (AGs) from 16 primarily coastal states and territories are urging lawmakers to oppose bills in Congress to ease EPA's national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) program, warning the measures would worsen air quality and hurt public health by delaying implementation of the standards, among other provisions. The bills would create “a significant step backward in combating the dangers of ozone” and other criteria pollutants such as particulate matter, the AGs say in April 26 letters to key House...