California on Monday launched a legal challenge over EPA’s recent move to tee up four of its Clean Air Act waivers for nullification.
The suit again heightens the already sky-high tension between the deep blue state and the Trump administration.
“While President Trump may be content to pollute our air-threatened vulnerable communities and kick workers to the curb, California is not,” said California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat. “We refuse to allow Trump and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to claw us back into the smog.”
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EPA earlier this month formally submitted four waivers issued as far back as the early Obama administration to Congress.
