EPA Faces Competing Attacks Over Proposed Offshore Drilling Permit

July 21, 2017
EPA is facing competing attacks from environmentalists and industry groups over a draft general permit for offshore oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, with industry groups pledging to lobby EPA to ease the permit to comply with recent Trump executive orders while environmentalists are threatening to sue because the plan violates the Clean Water Act (CWA). Region 6 took comment through July 10 on its proposed reissuance, with some modifications, of a general permit for new and...


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