Failed Talks Leave It Up To Court To Rule On GHG Limits For Stalled Permits

EPA and backers of a planned power plant have failed to reach agreement on a schedule for the agency to issue a long-delayed air permit for the facility, leaving it up to a federal court to rule on the potentially precedent-setting question of whether regulators can set permit limits on greenhouse gas (GHG) and other pollutants that are regulated after the permits were first sought but before they were issued. The developers of the proposed California Avenal Power Center, LLC...