Petition Ups Pressure On EPA To Widen Scope Of Title V Air Permit Review

Pressure is mounting on EPA to widen its review of Clean Air Act Title V state operating permits to include underlying air permits and states’ choice of permits required, as environmentalists again press the agency to revoke a Trump-era doctrine that EPA will not “second-guess” states’ air permitting decisions. Indiana citizens filed an Aug. 6 petition seeking to reverse the Trump-era policy, asking EPA to object to the Title V and NSR permits for a proposed plant using kilns to...