Former EPA Official Fears ESPS Compliance Could Trigger NSR Permitting

A former EPA official is warning that power plants making efficiency upgrades to comply with EPA's greenhouse gases rule for existing utilities could trigger costly Clean Air Act new source review (NSR) permitting mandates for the conventional pollutants emitted from efficiency technologies. William Wehrum, acting EPA air chief during the Bush administration and now partner with law firm Hunton & Williams, told a recent law conference that major efficiency projects might not qualify as "routine" upgrades exempt from NSR, forcing...