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NAT. RES. DEFENSE COUNCIL v. N.Y. DEPT. OF E. CONS.

Nos. 87 Civ. 0505 (MEL), 87 Civ. 4242 (MEL).

700 F.Supp. 173 (1988)

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC.; American Lung Association; American Lung Association of New York State, Inc.; Brooklyn Lung Association, Inc.; Queensboro Lung Association; and American Lung Association, Hudson Valley, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION; Henry G. Williams, as Commissioner, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation; United States Environmental Protection Agency; and Lee M. Thomas, as Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Defendants. ATLANTIC TERMINAL URBAN RENEWAL AREA COALITION, John Theodore Glick, Anne McClellan, Loraine Oliver, and Mildred Davis, Plaintiffs, v. NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; New York City Public Development Corporation; New York City Board of Estimate; Edward I. Koch; Harvey W. Schultz; New York City Planning Commission; Sylvia Deutsch; United States Environmental Protection Agency; Lee M. Thomas; United States Department of Housing and Urban Development; and Samuel R. Pierce, Jr., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

As Amended December 2, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald S. Strait, Eric A. Goldstein, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., David S. Schoenbrod, New York City, Wallace Boulton (Assisting in the preparation of the brief), for plaintiffs in 87 Civ. 0505 (MEL).

Edward Copeland, Elizabeth St. Clair, Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, P.C., New York City, for plaintiffs in 87 Civ. 4242 (MEL).

Rudolph W. Giuliani, U.S. Atty., S.D. N.Y., New York City, for Federal Defendants in 87 Civ. 0505 (MEL) and 87 Civ. 4242 (MEL); Roger J. Marzulla, Asst. Atty. Gen., Land and Natural Resources Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Richard W. Mark, Mary Ellen Kris, Asst. U.S. Attys., S.D. N.Y., David Kaplan, Michael M. Wenig, Land and Natural Resources Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Richard Roos-Collins, U.S. E.P.A., Lisa Burianek, Asst. Regional Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region II, of counsel.

LASKER, District Judge.

These actions concern the quality of the air in the New York metropolitan area, particularly the presence of the pollutants carbon monoxide and ozone, and the nature of the responsibilities established by the Clean Air Act ("the Act") in an attempt to control and abate their emission. The Act, originally enacted by Congress in 1970, established a partnership between the federal government and the states to ensure that the two would work together...

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