Environmentalists Vow To Fight Retroactive Application Of Pruitt's NSR Memo

December 13, 2017
Environmentalists are vowing to fight any EPA effort to retroactively apply its controversial new source review (NSR) applicability test to ongoing enforcement actions, including the pending case against Michigan utility DTE Energy whose stance Administrator Scott Pruitt has now adopted despite judicial support for the agency's prior policy. “We don't think the Pruitt memo should dictate in this case because the thought that the EPA has adopted DTE's litigation position after fighting for six years and winning twice at the...


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