CBD Seeks To Count ‘Temporary’ Drilling Emissions In Colorado Permits

The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) is seeking to force Colorado to count “temporary” construction emissions when deciding whether oil and gas operations require tough “major source” air permits, in a lawsuit that aims to scrap EPA’s approval of the state’s “inadequate” plan to meet federal ozone standards in the Denver region. In its Nov. 1 opening brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in CBD v. EPA, et al. , the group says EPA...