This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Two leftist organizations have filed court action because two leftist states are failing to comply with a clearly leftist agenda point.
It is Courthousenews that revealed the Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Environmental Health have sued the Trump administration, through the Environmental Protection Agency, because California and Colorado have air pollution.
The complaint involves the State Implementation Plans submitted by the states.
"To set national air quality standards, each state or air regulator in the U.S. submits a State Implementation Plan with a timeline to tackle pollution," the report explained. "With the EPA's approval within two years of submission of such a state plan, a Federal Implementation Plan is enacted.
"Numerous SIP elements, submitted by both the Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District (California) and the State of Colorado for the West Mojave Desert and Denver Metro/North Front Range nonattainment areas, respectively, have now languished before EPA, without receiving final approval or disapproval, for years," the lawsuit charges.
"Additionally, EPA has failed to promulgate a FIP for Colorado, after partially disapproving its SIP two years ago."
The claims are that the federal government is underserving the California and Colorado residents.
"Trump's EPA is forcing millions of people to breathe extremely harmful levels of smog, day after day," Ryan Maher, of the Center for Biological Diversity, charged. "As this administration gives handout after handout to the fossil fuel industry and other polluters, we're counting on the courts to step in and protect public health."
Of course, most of the time during which the EPA allegedly didn't act was under the supervision of the Joe Biden administration.
"The plaintiffs say that the agency has sat on plans submitted by California in 2020 and 2023 and failed to take action by May 2025, as the act requires," the report said. Trump had been in office only a few months at that time.
"With regard to Colorado, the 'EPA disapproved the SIP revisions ¬— submitted by Colorado on May 14, 2018, May 13, 2020, March 22, 2021, May 18, 2021, and May 20, 2022 — citing their lack of 'sufficient reporting requirements,' which illegally undermine the ability of the public to enforce the rules being incorporated into Colorado's SIP,' causing further delay and prompted the organizations to file suit," the report said.
So after years of inaction by the Biden administration, the lawsuit now is trying to "push the EPA to act as soon as possible."
