Testing Haze Rules, Citizens Contest EPA’s Offshore Wind Farm Air Permit

A New Jersey citizens’ group is challenging EPA’s air permit for a planned offshore wind farm in the state, charging the project will undermine the state’s plan for complying with regional haze rules and the permit underestimates its pollution impacts -- a potential test of whether the agency is required to consider such sources in the haze program. In its Oct. 15 petition filed with the agency’s Environmental Appeals Board (EAB), Save Long Beach Island, Inc. (SLBI), a nonprofit group...