CBD Suit Over Colorado NSR Expands Push For Tougher Oil, Gas Permits

Environmentalists are again suing EPA to force the agency to disapprove Colorado air rules for oil and gas production, claiming that the state must consider well construction emissions in addition to operating emissions, in a further test of new source review (NSR) permitting that industry says in a related case could create “an adverse national precedent.” In a suit filed Jan. 23 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) seeks to...