First GHG Permit Limits

Environmentalists and an Idaho fertilizer plant have agreed to a legal settlement that includes the first enforceable greenhouse gas (GHG) limits as part of an air permit for a coal plant, a move that activists are hailing but which they say stops short of forcing similar limits in other permits. The GHG limits are included in a settlement agreement reached between Sierra Club, the Idaho Conservation League and Southeast Idaho Energy Inc. over the activists' challenge to the air permit...