Groups Sue EPA Over Texas Air Plan, Fearing Loss Of ‘Continuous’ Controls

The Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) and Sierra Club are suing EPA over the agency’s failure to act on a proposed modification to Texas’ plan for meeting federal particulate matter (PM) standards that the groups say would undercut rules that coal plants control emissions on a "continuous" basis during maintenance, startup and shutdown (MSS) activities. In their suit filed Oct. 10 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the groups say EPA has failed to discharge its “nondiscretionary”...