EPA settles suit over Texas startup, shutdown air plan

EPA has reached a proposed agreement with environmentalists setting a deadline for the agency to act on Texas’ efforts to modify its state implementation plan (SIP) to ensure that federal particulate matter (PM) standards apply on a “continuous” basis, but which petitioners say actually opens regulatory loopholes. In a Federal Register notice scheduled for publication Feb. 17, EPA announces a proposed consent decree with Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) and Sierra Club that would end litigation in the U.S. District...