EPA Seeks To Block Nationwide Review Of Offshore Air Permit Dispute

EPA is asking a federal appellate court to dismiss oil-giant Chevron’s challenge to its recent decision rejecting Trump-era air permitting waivers for oil platform decommissioning off the California coast, a move that aims to avoid a national precedent on what it claims is a purely local issue even as a series of major East Coast projects await permitting. In an Aug. 23 motion the agency asks the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to dismiss Chevron...