SIERRA CLUB EAB FILING COUNTERS MICHIGAN CLAIM ON LANDFILL CO2 LIMITS

Environmentalists are strongly countering as "nonsensical" claims by Michigan that EPA does not "regulate" carbon dioxide (CO2) under existing landfill air rules in a new brief in an ongoing challenge before EPA's Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) seeking to force CO2 permit limits. Sierra Club in an Aug. 21 brief in the case, In the Matter of Northern Michigan University , rejects claims by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) that the state does not need to mandate greenhouse gas...