Activists' SIP Suits May Delay Permits Until Issuance Of Strict Utility Rules

Environmentalists are suing EPA to force it to use a Clean Air Act power to block coal-fired utility permits issued under state air quality plans that they say fail to comply with the air law, a strategy one activists says could delay the permits until the agency implements stricter air, waste and other rules that the permits would have to adopt. Sierra Club and Valley Watch are pursuing legal challenges to permits for power plants in a number of states...