EPA Sued Over Not Acting on San Joaquin Air Standards (Correct)

A group of environmental and community activist groups filed a new lawsuit accusing the US Environmental Protection Agency of violating the Clean Air Act by failing to take appropriate action on plans for implementing fine particulate matter and ozone standards in California’s San Joaquin Valley.

Little Manila Rising, Medical Advocates for Healthy Air, and the Sierra Club sued the agency Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, asserting that the EPA didn’t make a timely determination on whether the region attained or failed to attain the 1997 annual fine particulate matter (PM2.5) National Ambient Air ...