Smog in Los Angeles. (Image by David Mark from Pixabay via Courthouse News)
WASHINGTON (CN) More than 26 million people live under some of the worst smog in the country in Chicago, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Coachella Valley, San Joaquin Valley and Ventura County areas where the Environmental Protection Agency missed the deadline to approve concrete smog-reduction measures.
Environmental groups sued the EPA in San Francisco federal court on Wednesday for failing to approve Illinois and California’s proposals to reduce smog in these six areas before their one-year deadline.
“It’s important because once the EPA issues approval or disapproval, you actually have enforceable measures,” said Ashley Bruner, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, which filed the lawsuit alongside the Center for Environmental Health. “And we don’t have that yet.”
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