EPA, Sierra Club Defend Injunctive Relief In Key NSR Air Permit Appeal

April 2, 2020
EPA and environmentalists in new legal briefs are defending a federal district court’s requirement that electric utility Ameren Missouri install tougher emissions controls on two power plants, in an appeal testing the limits of EPA’s enforcement authority under the new source review (NSR) air permit program. In their March 30 briefs filed in USA and Sierra Club v. Ameren Missouri , pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, EPA and Sierra Club reject industry arguments that...


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