Sierra Club sues EPA over air permitting policy change

Sierra Club is suing EPA over the agency’s denial of the group’s challenge to a Utah power plant’s air permit, in a case that will test a key change in policy by the Trump EPA in which the agency makes it more difficult to challenge underlying provisions of Clean Air Act “Title V” operating permits. In recently-filed suits in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, and also the D.C. Circuit, Sierra Club challenges EPA’s Oct. 16 denial...