Court To Rule On GHG Limits For Stalled Plant Permit After Talks Fail

U.S. EPA and backers of a planned power plant in San Joaquin Valley have failed to reach agreement on a schedule for the agency to issue a long-delayed air permit for the facility, leaving it up to a federal court to rule on the potentially precedent-setting question of whether regulators can set permit limits for greenhouse gases (GHGs) and other pollutants after the permits were first sought but before they were issued. The developers of the proposed California Avenal Power...