The Midwest state joined Valero's Diamond Alternative Energy and
other plaintiffs in challenging Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) authority under the Clean Air Act to grant waivers that
allow California to set greenhouse gas emissions limits that are
stricter than the federal government's, after a spate of Supreme
Court rulings that weaken U.S. agency authority.
"The Golden State is not the golden child. Yet in the Clean Air
Act, Congress elevated California above all the other States by
giving to the Golden State alone the power to pass certain
environmental laws," the Ohio plaintiffs wrote in their petition
to have the nation's top court hear its case.
Ohio's attorney general, who brought the case, and the EPA did
not immediately respond to requests for comment.
(Reporting by Lisa Baertlein in Los Angeles and Valerie
Volcovici and David Shepardson in Washington; Editing by Sandra
Maler)
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