Environmentalists threaten EPA with suit over Valero permit

September 6, 2024
Environmentalists are threatening EPA with a lawsuit over its failure to deny or issue an air permit for oil company Valero’s Houston Refinery, after the agency missed a Clean Air Act deadline to act on the permit after earlier objecting to it on multiple grounds related to inadequate compliance measures. In their undated notice of intent to sue letter posted to EPA’s website Sept. 4, groups including Sierra Club and Environmental Integrity Project say they intend to sue the agency...


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