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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Five western states named in EPA lawsuit

The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to meet numerous deadlines for limiting dangerous pollution from tiny airborne particles like soot and dust in Idaho, Alaska, Arizona, Montana and Nevada. In some cases, the deadline for EPA action passed more than 10 years ago. The EPA has violated the Clean Air Act by failing to determine the states are complying with existing standards designed to protect the public from air pollution, and by failing to ensure that states are implementing legally required plans to meet the standards, according to the Arizona-based nonprofit organization...read more

1 comment:

Brett said...: If memory serves, at least in Arizona, a five or ten year extension was granted after a bunch of wailing and gnashing of teeth. There was a big to-do about this again a few years back, which resulted in further extensions.

I am of the opinion that Arizona will be unable to meet the newer PM10 requirements. Even with dust control mandates that are, again in my opinion, wasting millions of gallons of water, they're still nowhere near the requirements. The regional people get this, which is why they keep putting it off with extensions. It is an admission that neither the plans nor the requirements are workable, let alone feasible.; 12:24 PM