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Second EPA CCS Project Approval Faces EAB Suit On Species, Air Impacts

October 30, 2014
EPA's second ever approval of a carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project under new Safe Drinking Water (SDWA) permit rules is prompting an Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) suit over claims the permit review failed to fully consider adverse air and endangered species impacts, weeks after landowners filed suit over the first ever permits. In the new challenge , Illinois resident Jeffrey Sprague argues in an Oct. 28 petition that EPA's review of the second project fails to “address any potential...


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