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laserhaas

(7,805 posts)
Mon Mar 12, 2018, 06:52 PM Mar 2018

Fed Court: EPA broke law with smog rule delay

Source: The HILL



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The Trump administration broke the law when it missed a deadline last year in implementing the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ozone pollution rule, a federal court ruled Monday.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt was supposed to announce by Oct. 1 which areas of the country were in compliance with the 2015 Obama administration rule.

Pruitt later announced findings for areas that comply, but not for areas that do not.

Judge Haywood Stirling Gilliam Jr. of the federal District Court for the District of Northern California said Monday that Pruitt broke the law, and ordered him to publish the findings for almost all of the rest of the country by April 30

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/377977-court-epa-broke-law-with-smog-rule-delay?amp&__twitter_impression=true
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Fed Court: EPA broke law with smog rule delay (Original Post) laserhaas Mar 2018 OP
Deplorablres think regulating big business is bad, protecting their air and water, bad. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2018 #1
Nothing matters more to them than sticking it to the evil liberals, Dark n Stormy Knight Mar 2018 #2

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)
1. Deplorablres think regulating big business is bad, protecting their air and water, bad.
Mon Mar 12, 2018, 06:54 PM
Mar 2018

Deplorables are stupid.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,771 posts)
2. Nothing matters more to them than sticking it to the evil liberals,
Mon Mar 12, 2018, 06:56 PM
Mar 2018

even if it means they allow themselves to be poisoned in the process. It's amazing how thoroughly religion and the RW propaganda machine has brainwashed these people.

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