ACE Comments Spark Contentious Debate Over Legality Of NSR Changes

EPA is facing starkly different interpretations of the legality of its plan to ease the threshold for triggering strict new source review (NSR) air permits for coal plants complying with its proposed utility climate rule, reviving a decades-old debate with pro-coal industry groups backing the changes and environmentalists strongly opposed. The proposed NSR reforms are included in the Trump EPA's broader Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule that would replace the Obama-era Clean Power Plan with a narrower policy to address...