Downwind Pollution: Suing the EPA
According to a Reuters report today eight Northeastern states just sued the US EPA to force it to impose more stringent controls on some largely Midwestern states on the claim that their exclusion by the Environmental Protection Agency, the EPA, from being subject to more stricter smog regulation, is harming their states. The problem here is that pollution being generated in a particular geographical location, in this case believed to come from these states most of them Midwe