Environmental Defense Slams Colorado for Opposing Enforcement of Vital Clean Airs Laws
Denver – Environmental Defense slammed the State of Colorado for joining Alabama and some of the biggest polluters in the nation in fighting against cleaner, healthier air for America by filing a brief today in the U.S. Supreme Court opposing enforcement of the nation’s bedrock clean air laws (to receive a copy of the brief, please email scrowley@environmentaldefesnse.org or vpatton@environmentaldefense.org).
- former EPA Administrator Carol M. Browner
- former EPA Administrator Russell E. Train
- State and Territorial Air Pollution Program Administrators and the Association of Local Air Pollution Control Officials (the nation’s professional association of state and local air pollution control officials)
- American Lung Association
- American Thoracic Society
- American Association for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- National Association for the Medical Direction of Respiratory Care
- American College of Chest Physicians
- Arizona
- California
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Kentucky
- New Jersey
- Michigan
- New York
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Minnesota
- New Hampshire
- New Mexico
- Oregon
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
- Rhode Island
- Vermont
- Washington
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