Judge Rules EPA Failing to Curb Pollution Blowing East

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...

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