Advocates' Lawsuit Seeks EPA Objection To Utility's 'Synthetic' Air Permit

February 10, 2016
Environmentalists are suing EPA to force the agency to object to the "synthetic minor" Clean Air Act permit of a Georgia power plant, a type of permit that some environmental sources say is problematic because its limits on emissions, which are designed to avoid tougher "major source" pollution controls, can often be difficult to enforce. In a suit filed Jan. 25 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, the Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI), a Massachusetts-based...


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