Sierra Club Sues EPA Over Arizona Coal Plant Air Permit Provisions

Environmentalists are suing EPA over the agency’s partial denial of their petition for an objection to the air permit granted by Arizona air regulators to a coal-fired power plant, after EPA found some of their core objections to a novel pollution control plan to be premature for adjudication in a permit dispute. In a lawsuit filed Aug. 10 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, Sierra Club challenges EPA’s June 14 order that partially granted, but partially...