EJ Groups Blast EPA Approval Of California SIP’s ‘Contingency Measures’

Environmental justice (EJ) groups are charging that EPA’s proposed approval of a revised California state implementation plan (SIP) to attain the 2008 ozone standard in the San Joaquin Valley violates multiple laws and fails to meet mandates for “contingency measures” (CM) to reduce excess pollution, likely foreshadowing new litigation. “This proposed attempt to weaken contingency measures violates [presidential] Executive Orders 14008 and 14096, the Procedural Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, the Clean Air Act, the Administrative Procedure Act,...