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Judge Rules EPA Failing to Curb Pollution Blowing East

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Judge Rules EPA Failing to Curb Pollution Blowing East

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A helicopter flies over the Hudson River with One World Trade Center and Lower Manhattan in the background

6/13/18

HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT — A federal judge in New York has ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has violated the federal Clean Air Act by failing to curb ozone air pollution that blows into Connecticut and New York from the west. U.S. District Judge John Koeltl, in a decision dated Tuesday, granted the states' request for a summary judgment against the EPA and Commissioner Scott Pruitt for violating the so-called "Good Neighbor Provision" of the act, which requires it to enforce 2008 clean-air standards with state-by state implementation plans. The lawsuit, which was filed in January, is one of several in the past year involving mostly East Coast states seeking to have the EPA regulate out-of-state pollutants. New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood said as many as two in three New Yorkers are breathing unhealthy levels of smog.

"The Trump administration has repeatedly flouted the law — and over and over again, we've taken them to court and won. We will continue to do what it takes to protect New Yorkers' health and environment," she said. New York and Connecticut alleged the air quality there is being choked by smog emanating from Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. "As a downwind state, our residents have suffered for too long from other states' lax clean air standards," said Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy, a Democrat. "The EPA's recent failure to hold upwind states accountable is not acceptable."

Lol. Scott Pruitt's EPA doesn't regulate pollution anymore. On the contrary, Pruitt removes pollution regulations on the heaviest industrial polluters ... which also happen to be his friends and donors.
 
Judge Rules EPA Failing to Curb Pollution Blowing East

smog_new_york001_16x9.jpg

A helicopter flies over the Hudson River with One World Trade Center and Lower Manhattan in the background



Lol. Scott Pruitt's EPA doesn't regulate pollution anymore. On the contrary, Pruitt removes pollution regulations on the heaviest industrial polluters ... which also happen to be his friends and donors.

Im also laughing at this. Momentarily. As someone whose position osely mirrors the EPA, jist in ankther jurisdiction, i cant say im surprised. Google EPA Superfund Sites and read about the grandfathering in, the irresponsible loopholes, and pres teumps rollback on regulation.

And look... i do think there are some instances of overregulation, but i also know many of our laws are in place bc of the lack of regs. Entire rivers on fire, dangerous groundwater contamination, biological defects... list goes on. I get it, you may not believe me bc we are both just abstract fogures in the atmosphere. But i assure you... A:) companies will bitch and capaign and fight anything... and B:).. if all this goes away, i lose my authority to hold ships and facilities a countable for cutting corners. Ibe seen it all, the absolute worst neglect from foreign freight, tank, and gas ships.
 
Judge Rules EPA Failing to Curb Pollution Blowing East

smog_new_york001_16x9.jpg

A helicopter flies over the Hudson River with One World Trade Center and Lower Manhattan in the background



Lol. Scott Pruitt's EPA doesn't regulate pollution anymore. On the contrary, Pruitt removes pollution regulations on the heaviest industrial polluters ... which also happen to be his friends and donors.

Pruitt has been out of office since 6 July 2018.
 
Judge Rules EPA Failing to Curb Pollution Blowing East

smog_new_york001_16x9.jpg

A helicopter flies over the Hudson River with One World Trade Center and Lower Manhattan in the background



Lol. Scott Pruitt's EPA doesn't regulate pollution anymore. On the contrary, Pruitt removes pollution regulations on the heaviest industrial polluters ... which also happen to be his friends and donors.

Please explain to us how the EPA can achieve the goals they have set? They are unrealistic. Seems to be, this will push for increasing the maximum target levels, as we would have mass riots by the liberals if we made than park their cars and unions if we stopped their trucking.
 
One more thing.

Images like that are easy to catch on camera on partially clears days, with no filters. Film and digital cameras both see spectra that the human eye doesn't. That could easily be infrared from H2O in the atmosphere we see.
 
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