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The proposal, called the interstate air quality rule, would gradually tighten limits on emissions of nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide through 2015.

The groups said that President Obama's refusal to adopt the new standard was illegal and left in place an inadequate air quality rule from the Bush administration.

"This petition reinforces and strengthens the need for E.P.A. to finalize its interstate air quality rule currently under consideration," said Michael Shore, who directs the air quality initiative in the Southeast for the advocacy group Environmental Defense.

John F. Sheehan of the Adirondack Council, a nonprofit advocacy group, said the new air quality rule would help the Adirondack Park in upstate New York, the nation's largest outside of Alaska, to recover from decades of pollution produced far from its borders.

"These air quality rules should already have been met.

California has long had authority to set its own air quality rules because its regulations predated the federal Clean Air Act.

Alan Lloyd, chairman of the powerful California Air Resources Board, which has enforced some of the toughest air quality rules in the world, agrees.

But that may not be the case in the future as stricter air quality rules are put in place.

California, which has long battled smog, has the unique authority to set its own air quality rules, and other states are permitted to follow its air regulations.

By blocking a new Environmental Protection Agency rule on smog, the White House has bowed to critics in Congress and industry who said new air quality rules would kill jobs.

The only California power plant that has actually been kept offline by air quality rules belongs not to a Texas company but to the city of Glendale.