California Argues EPA Threats On Air, Water Shift Blame, Ring Hollow

September 26, 2019
California and environmentalists are branding EPA’s threat to block the state from receiving highway funds based on incomplete air pollution plans as a political attack that ignores the need for new federal emission curbs and the implausibility that the pro-deregulation Trump administration would impose such limits. EPA’s threats related to air pollution -- followed up just days later with similar attacks on the state’s implementation of clean water standards -- are almost surely intended as retribution for the state’s strident...


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