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Appellate Court Backs Use Of SILs In Air Permits As EPA Readies Guide

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit is backing Louisiana air regulators’ use of “significant impact levels” (SILs) to approve a gas export terminal’s air permit, reinforcing the legality of the screening tools ahead of EPA guidance that will address environmentalists’ concerns that SILs enable industry to emit excess pollution.

In Precedent, 3rd Circuit Rejects Pennsylvania Challenge To EPA’s FIP Power

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit has rejected challenges by Pennsylvania and operators of coal-fired power plants to EPA’s federal ozone plan imposing emissions controls on plants in the state, in a precedential decision that upholds EPA’s right to impose a federal plan even where a state has modified its own plan to address shortcomings.

From Inside TSCA
ATSDR Publishes Draft Profiles For Two Chemicals Seen As EPA Targets

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is seeking comment on draft updates to its toxicological profiles for two chemicals EPA has marked as priorities in recent years: naphthalene, which the agency has named as a candidate for TSCA evaluation, and acrolein, which it has sought to limit in several air and water actions.

In Key Test Case, Industry Backs EPA’s Use Of ‘Exceptional Events’ Policy

Major industry groups are joining local business and municipal organizations to defend a first-time legal challenge of EPA’s use of its exceptional events policy to exclude the air quality effects of Canadian wildfire smoke when it determined in 2022 that Detroit was attaining federal ozone standards.

From Climate Extra
GOP Formally Begins CRA Attacks Over EPA’s Car, Truck Emissions Rules

Capitol Hill Republicans have formally introduced two Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions targeting EPA’s car and truck emissions regulations, a move that tees up a political battle over the rules even as the measures are unlikely to be enacted given near-certain Biden administration vetoes.

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