A day after the US Senate voted to uphold the US Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate greenhouse gases, a coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit today challenging EPA's failure to address such pollution from ocean-going ships, aircraft and nonroad vehicles and engines used in industrial operations. The lawsuit was filed in federal district court in the District of Columbiaby Earthjustice and the Western Environmental Law Center on behalf of Oceana, Friends of the Earth, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Center for Food Safety, and the International Center for Technology Assessment. Together, aircraft, ship and nonroad vehicles and engines are responsible for 24 percent of U.S. mobile source greenhouse gas emissions, and emit approximately 290,000 tons of soot every year. Pollution from these sources is projected to grow rapidly over coming decades. EPA  aircraft  pollution  ship 
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