Sierra Club Says EPA Air Permit Petition Denial Unlawfully Sets New Policy

Sierra Club is attacking EPA's landmark denial of the group's petition asking it to object to a Utah-issued Clean Air Act permit for a coal-fired power plant, claiming the decision unlawfully reverses national air permitting policy by excluding consideration of underlying permit conditions in assessing the merits of air law “Title V” air permits. In its Oct. 4 opening brief in Sierra Club v. EPA, et al. , now pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of...