States use lawsuit to pressure EPA release of ozone designations

May 23, 2018
Several states suing EPA over the agency's long delay in designating areas of the country as either attaining or violating federal ozone standards are using their suit to pressure the agency against any further stalling in issuing the designations, refuting EPA's claims in a recent status report that it has all but completed designations. In a May 22 filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in American Lung Association, et al. v. EPA ,...


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