Posted on 12/27/2017 6:05:52 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eight northeastern states said on Tuesday they sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to force it to impose more stringent controls on a group of mostly Midwestern states whose air pollution they claim is being blown in their direction.
In the latest development of a legal saga that began during Barack Obama's presidency, the lawsuit by New York and seven other states challenges a Trump administration decision to allow nine upwind states to escape tighter smog pollution controls.
"Millions of New Yorkers are breathing unhealthy air as smog pollution continues to pour in from other states," said New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who led the coalition of states that filed the lawsuit dated Friday.
The coalition urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to overturn the EPA's decision not to add the nine upwind states to the congressionally created "Ozone Transport Region," which requires stricter pollution controls.
An EPA spokeswoman declined to comment.
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These progressive/communists seem to think that energy will always magically just show up to serve them.
I live in WV, Maryland passed an anti-fracking law which was signed by their republican Governor. There is talk of increasing natural gas supplies to the eastern panhandle in WV as there is a great deal of growth there. The easiest way was to bring it down from PA through MD. MD balked at the idea, last I heard it was going to go through WV to the panhandle.
States like NY and MD who actively restrict most energy development should have to pay a premium for this evil energy.
State officials who think they got nothing better to do, while a lot they need to do sits idling waiting to be recognized.
Delaware couldn’t balance its budget without taxing seniors over and above all other taxes. Yet, they found money to pursue this baseless lawsuit,
Obviously, Democrats want to kill all the seniors.
Insulators, target practice, and interstate transmission lines?
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