CLEVELAND, Ohio – Environmental advocates claim the Ohio legislature is illegally denying citizens the ability to protect themselves from air pollution.

In a lawsuit filed in Franklin County Common Pleas Court, the Ohio Environmental Council, Sierra Club and others claim state lawmakers violated the Ohio Constitution when they inserted certain provisions in the state budget this summer.

The provisions not only nullified the state’s Air Nuisance Rule, but they disallowed the use of community-acquired air monitoring data as evidence when going after polluters in court or in seeking fines and penalties through regulatory proceedings.

The language in the budget is unconstitutional because it violates the one-subject rule that requires legislation to be limited to a single subject matter, ac

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