ENVIRONMENTALISTS CITE NSR RULING TO BOOST BID FOR HIGH COURT REVIEW

Environmentalists are citing last week's appellate ruling rejecting a key Bush administration new source review (NSR) reform in a legal brief filed March 21 to bolster their effort to have the Supreme Court review a separate but related NSR enforcement ruling that activists are hoping the high court will overturn. NSR generally requires facilities to install state-of-the-art emissions controls if a modification increases emissions. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit March 17 vacated EPA's NSR...