El Comité Para El Bienestar De Earlimart v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

OPINION

SCHROEDER, Senior Circuit Judge:

We deal with another phase of California’s efforts to create a “Pesticide Element” for its State Implementation Plan (“SIP”) that meets the requirements of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq. This is a challenge by several community organizations to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) 2012 approval of revisions and additions to California’s Pesticide Element relating to the reduction of volatile organic compounds (“VOCs”), precursors of ozone, in the San Joaquin and Ventura air basins.

In an earlier decision involving the Pesticide…