San Joaquin Valley Pressured to Implement Air Plan

Environment News Service, January, 2005

FRESNO, California (ENS) — --> One year after, the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District adopted its first federally approved plan to meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards for particulate matter, most of the plan is not in effect.

On Thursday, clean air advocates sent a 60 day notice of legal action, as required under the federal Clean Air Act, to seek full implementation of the plan.

The plan was created more than a decade late, and only after community groups sued the EPA to enforce the original 1991 deadline.

EPA approved a plan that relies on nine key commitments to develop controls within one year of adopting the plan. Now, a year later, only two of those commitments have been honored.

Of those, the...

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