Activists Seek Court Ruling For EPA To Halt Permits In Deficient SIP Areas

Environmentalists are urging a key federal appeals court to overturn a lower court's ruling that EPA does not have a mandate to block new or modified "major" pollution sources in areas with state implementation plans (SIPs) that fail to comply with the Clean Air Act, hoping a win in the case could boost their efforts to oppose such facilities. One environmental legal source says that under existing law and regulation it is not "clear" that the agency has a mandatory...