Clock starts for filing suits over EPA NSR project ‘accounting’ rule

EPA has published its new source review (NSR) “project emissions accounting” rule in the Nov. 24 Federal Register , starting a 60-day Clean Air Act clock for critics to file suit over the rule that makes it easier for air permit applicants to avoid in-depth analysis of their projects’ emissions and possibly avoid tougher pollution controls. The rule codifies a March 2018 guidance and subsequent August 2019 proposed rule that changed the method EPA prefers that air regulators use when...