EPA Defends Phosphogypsum Approval, Charging CBD Lacks Standing

EPA is seeking to dismiss environmentalists’ challenge to its Biden-era approval of a small-scale pilot project allowing a Florida company to use phosphogypsum (PG) in road construction, charging that the petitioner lacks standing and that the agency properly interpreted the Clean Air Act’s section 112(r) provisions when it approved the project. EPA filed a Sept. 12 response brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in the suit Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) v. EPA, et al....