Yahoo News: “The Environmental Protection Agency is getting up to two more months to complete regulations aimed at improving the vistas in 156 national parks and wilderness areas.
EPA officials reached agreement Friday with the advocacy group Environmental Defense on a new June 15 deadline for the agency to tell states how to reduce hazy air in parks and remote areas. The rules were supposed to have been issued Friday under the settlement of a lawsuit the group filed against EPA in 2003.
The suit asked the court to make EPA enforce the 1977 Clean Air Act amendments that set goals for improving views in 35 national parks, 120 wilderness areas and Roosevelt Campobello International Park overseen by a U.S.-Canada commission.
Affected parks include the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina, Acadia in Maine, Glacier in Montana, Grand Canyon in Arizona, Shenandoah in Virginia, Yellowstone in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, and Sequoia and Yosemite in California.”