State's Petition For EPA NSR 'Maintenance' Rule Could Revive Legal Fight

West Virginia is petitioning EPA for a rulemaking to clarify and ease a Clean Air Act new source review (NSR) permitting exemption for facility “routine maintenance,” a move the agency has signaled it is likely to pursue but one that could revive a legal fight with environmentalists who won a court ruling in 2006 scrapping a similar rule. In the petition filed April 18 , West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey (R) asks EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and EPA air...