2nd Round of Comments (email) from EarthJustice to Frances Wicher, August 12, 2011

Commenters are extremely disappointed by EPA‟s about-face in its decision to now approve the PM2.5 Plan for the Valley. The reversal is particularly troubling because it is largely based on the exact same information EPA previously concluded undermined the approvability of the Plan. EPA is not claiming that the previously identified defects have been fixed because, in fact, no changes to the Plan have been made. Instead EPA has reverted to its prior practice of rubberstamping air quality plans that are certain to fail, and returned to the political strategy that has made California home to the most polluted air basins in the U.S.