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Feds seek overturn clean air law { September 2 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.dailydemocrat.com/articles/2003/09/01/news/news97_.txt http://www.dailydemocrat.com/articles/2003/09/01/news/news97_.txt Tuesday, September 2, 2003 Feds seek to overturn clean air law LOS ANGELES (AP) - The federal government is backing a lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court that seeks to overturn a California clean-air agency's attempts to curb pollution from buses, taxi cabs, trash trucks and other fleet vehicles. In a filing made late Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice urged the court to overturn the South Coast Air Quality Management District's clean fleet rules for the greater Los Angeles metropolitan region. The series of laws, adopted in 2000 and 2001, requires operators to buy clean-fueled models when they replace or add vehicles to their fleets. The laws have resulted in the replacement of hundreds of diesel trucks, buses and other fleet vehicles with cleaner-running models that burn natural gas and other alternative fuels, according to the AQMD, which is charged with cleaning up the air breathed by 16 million Southern Californians. Two industry groups, the Western States Petroleum Association and the Engine Manufacturers Association, sued the AQMD in U.S. District Court. The clean-air agency prevailed in that court and in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The plaintiffs then appealed to the Supreme Court, which is expected to hear the case in December. The Department of Justice's friend-of-the-court brief argues that under the federal Clean Air Act, states and local jurisdictions cannot establish their own emission standards for new vehicles - as it and the plaintiffs argue the AQMD has done with the fleet rules.

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