EPA settlement appears to skirt Trump prohibition on SEPs

EPA and New Jersey officials have signed a new settlement that requires a local utility authority to conduct a “state environmentally beneficial project” that pays for electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, an approach that appears to skirt Trump-era prohibitions on supplemental environmental projects (SEPs). The June 11 settlement between EPA, New Jersey and the Atlantic Coast Utilities Authority (ACUA) resolves allegations of violations of the Clean Air Act and New Jersey air laws at ACUA’s wastewater treatment plant in Atlantic...