Dakotas, Texas and Nevada sue EPA
Source: AP
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Nevada are suing the Environmental Protection Agency, alleging it has failed to determine the states' compliance with a new federal clean air requirement that limits sulfur dioxide emissions.
Attorneys general said in court papers that the states meet the new standard under the Clean Air Act, and that the EPA's inaction "will lengthen and complicate the overall permitting process, or even make permitting impossible."
The states allege the EPA is in violation federal law by missing its deadline to make the required determinations. Their lawsuit was filed last week in federal district court in Bismarck.
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The states) and the sources they regulate live in great uncertainty," court papers said.
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Our attorney general, Greg Abbott, gets giddy suing the federal government.
