Over the past several days, the Office of the New York State Attorney General took legal action on two occasions to protect the health and Safety of New York's air. 

Homer City Station is one of the largest out-of-state contributors of SO2 pollution to New York.July 13th, the AG and the Pennsylvania DEP,  notified the Homer City Station electric power plant of their intent to sue over multiple violations of the Clean Air Act.   The plant is located 50 mile east of Pittsburgh and emits over 100,000 tons of SO2, NOX and PM pollution annually, making it one of the largest out-of-state contributors of SO2 pollution to New York.  The lawsuit would require the facility to comply with the Clean Air Act, including installing state-of-the-art pollution controls to reduce emissions.  

July 21, the New York AG's office and a coalition of 13 other states filed papers to defend the new U.S. EPA "Tailoring Rule", which limits the emission of global warming pollution by the country's largest stationary sources, such as power plants, cement kilns, and oil refineries. The coalition is working  to counter a lawsuit brought by interest groups representing many of these polluters. Those covered by the Tailoring rule emit roughly 70 percent of Greenhouse Gases from stationary sources in the U.S.