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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - A federal appeals court upheld a decision giving San Joaquin Valley air regulators until 2010 to clean up soot and other particles that help make the area one the nation's most polluted basins.
Environmental groups had sued the Environmental Protection Agency, arguing that to comply with the federal Clean Air Act, the EPA had to require the local air district to meet federal standards by 2006.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District's new deadline fell within the guidelines established by the Clean Air Act, contrary to allegations by the Sierra Club and others groups.
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