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Smog covers the city of Los Angeles.
(Photo courtesy of Ben Amstutz)
case May 22, 2015

Cleaning Up Soot Pollution in the Los Angeles Region

Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles and Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice, have filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its failure to act on the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s plan to reduce particulate matter, or soot.…

document May 20, 2015

LA EPA Soot Pollution

Environmental Protection Agency is nine months behind on plans reducing soot in the nation’s dirtiest air basin

Although air quality has improved over the years in Los Angeles, Calif., bad air days still blanket the city and surrounding region with smog.
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Press Release May 20, 2015

Groups File Lawsuit Calling for Federal Government Action on Soot Pollution

Environmental Protection Agency is nine months behind on plans reducing soot in the nation’s dirtiest air basin