Critics Say Pruitt NSR Relief Memo Stymies Enforcement, 'Coerces' States

February 15, 2018
Democratic lawmakers and environmentalists say EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's memo aiming to ease Clean Air Act new source review (NSR) permit requirements renders the NSR program unenforceable and “coerces” states into following the memo even if they oppose it, setting a potential precedent for other air policy memos. But GOP lawmakers, industry officials and an Arkansas air regulator at a Feb. 14 House Energy & Commerce Committee environment panel hearing defended the memo. They reiterated long-running claims that the NSR...


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