Environmentalists threaten to sue EPA over NM gas permit

WildEarth Guardians, a New Mexico-based environmental group, is threatening to sue EPA over the agency’s failure to make a final decision approving or denying the state’s air permits for two large gas processing facilities in the Permian Basin oil and gas-producing region, after regulators missed a deadline to remedy the permits that EPA already found inadequate. “New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s Environment Department is turning its back on its duty to protect people and communities from the oil and...