CBD sues EPA over Western oil & gas facility permits

The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) is filing suit over EPA’s failure to act on the group’s objections to Clean Air Act permits for three oil and gas processing and storage facilities in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, saying the permits fail to limit sufficient pollution as required by the air law. The litigation, however, comes as the Trump EPA has pledged to remove regulatory barriers to fossil fuel production, meaning any response by the agency is unlikely to align...