Eight AGs Filed Lawsuit against EPA for Failing to Protect Residents from Cross-State Air Pollution

DECEMBER 26, 2017

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman led a coalition of eight attorneys general in filing a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) “to force action under the Clean Air Act to ensure upwind states adequately control the pollution that blows into New York and other downwind states...Specifically, the suit challenges the EPA’s denial of a petition that New York and several other states filed in late 2013 for the Agency to add nine additional states to the ‘Ozone Transport Region,’ a group of states established under the federal Clean Air Act that must act in concert to reduce smog pollution within the region.”