NEW: Two environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency over what they say is a failure to make sure Colorado is cleaning up its polluted air.
petitioned the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to hear their complaint, bypassing the lower courts. The two groups say the EPA approved a state plan to reduce ozone pollution even though that plan will not meet federally mandated goals for clean air.
“The EPA’s approval of this pollution-reduction plan, which we already know has failed, could have been straight out of George Orwell’s dystopian novel ‘1984,’” Robert Ukeiley, an environmental health attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, wrote in an email. Colorado has failed for 15 years to meet national air quality standards, and last year the EPA classified the northern Front Range as aAreas that violate ozone standards are required to submit plans to the federal government that demonstrate steps the state will take to reduce air pollution.in efforts to lower toxic air pollution to an acceptable level by 2024. The state’s plan laid out a formula to reach an older, more lax target by 2027.
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