CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTALISTS THREATEN SUIT OVER EPA'S INTERSTATE AIR RULE

July 8, 2005
Environmental groups in Canada are threatening a lawsuit to force EPA to require seven states mostly in the Midwest to reduce power plant emissions beyond levels required in the agency's clean air interstate rule (CAIR). The groups have filed a petition with EPA under a little-used provision of the Clean Air Act that allows foreigners to formally ask the agency to reduce air emissions. The environmentalists hope their petition -- only the third of its kind -- will lead to...


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