EPA Fights Suit Challenging Raised Bar For Title V Air Permit Objections

January 14, 2019
EPA, backed by industry groups and Texas, is fighting environmentalists' lawsuit that claims the agency has raised the bar for challenging Clean Air Act Title V permits by finding that objections to the permits cannot target other permits, defending its policy in an appellate court case similar to at least two other pending lawsuits. In the case, Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) and Sierra Club v. EPA , in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, the agency...


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