Missed Deadlines on Fine Particulates Trigger Advocates' Lawsuit Against EPA

摘要

Environmental organizations once again sued the Environmental Protection Agency for missing Clean Air Act deadlines: this time over various decisions the agency was supposed to make on fine par-ticulate matter (Ctr. for Biological Diversity v. McCarthy, N.D. Cal., No. 4:16-cv-5492, 9/27/16). The process for implementing national ambient air quality standards includes a number of decisions that the agency is required to make by law, including decisions on state pollution plans and determinations of whether areas have met deadlines for coming into compliance.