In First, EPA Asks State To Weigh New Plant Site To Avoid Disparate Impacts

EPA is urging Michigan regulators to consider asking an asphalt company to move its planned facility to a different location rather than building it in an already-overburdened community, a first-time request in an air permit review that underscores agency efforts to address civil rights and other environmental justice (EJ) concerns. The request, in a Sept. 16 letter from EPA Region 5 Acting Administrator Cheryl Newton to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes & Energy (EGLE), appears to seek to...