OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — Two environmental nonprofits sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator on Thursday, claiming California and Colorado residents were underserved by the agency in its capacity to set standards to curb air pollution, including smog, with violations to the Clean Air Act.
To set national air quality standards, each state or air regulator in the U.S. submits a State Implementation Plan with a timeline to tackle pollution. With the EPA’s approval within two years of submission of such a state plan, a Federal Implementation Plan is enacted.
But the Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Environmental Health claim in their complaint the EPA and administrator Lee Zeldin aren’t addressing the plans in a timely manner…