Environmental Defense Fund (news release)
(Washington, D.C. – March 29, 2013) A coalition of health and environmental organizations appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court today to reconsider a controversial appeals court ruling in a lawsuit over the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule.
American Lung Association, Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, and the Clean Air Council filed the appeal – officially called a petition for writ of certiorari – with the Supreme Court today.
“The Cross-State Air Pollution Rule is vital for the health and well-being of hundreds of millions of Americans,” said EDF counsel Sean H. Donahue. “We have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the lower court’s decision given the profound public interest in ensuring healthier, longer lives for the 240 million Americans afflicted by power plant pollution and given the appeals court’s sharp deviation from settled legal principles.”
