Delaware joins states suing EPA over upwind air pollution

(AP) – The attorneys general in eight Eastern Seaboard states are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over air pollution that blows in from upwind states.

New York Democrat Eric Schneiderman (SHNEYE’-dur-muhn) is the leading attorney general in the lawsuit. He says it was filed Tuesday in a federal appeals court in the District of Columbia to force President Donald Trump’s administration to take action to ensure upwind states control pollution.

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Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont also are part of the lawsuit.

The lawsuit stems from the EPA’s denial of a petition some of those states filed in 2013 under the Clean Air Act to get the agency to add nine upwind states to a group that must work together to reduce smog pollution.

An EPA spokeswoman says the agency doesn’t comment on pending litigation.

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