EPA gives environmentalists rare partial win in air permit challenge

EPA has given environmentalists a rare partial win in their challenge to a Clean Air Act permit for a Gulf Coast oil refinery by finding some terms of the permit were too ambiguous or weak, despite agency Administrator Scott Pruitt setting a higher bar for permit objections and deferring more to states on the adequacy of permits. Pruitt signed a May 1 order partially granting, but otherwise denying, environmentalists' petition for agency objection to the Title V permit of the...