D.C. Circuit Boosts EPA’s Policy On Limited Review Of Title V Air Permits

A federal appeals court has dismissed environmentalists’ suit over an EPA policy shift that bars the agency from “second-guessing” states’ Clean Air Act Title V permit decisions, boosting the policy in the short-term although the court rejected the suit on procedural grounds so a future lawsuit could still challenge the policy’s merits. In a unanimous June 14 opinion in Sierra Club v. EPA, et al. , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejects the suit...