EPA Permit Response Further Limits Advocates' Push To Curb Emissions

摘要

EPA has rejected environmentalists' petition urging it to reject permits for Texas power plants as being too weak, which advocates say further limits their options to cut air pollution from the many major emissions sources in Texas, following federal court rulings last year seen as restricting Clean Air Act citizen suit enforcement in the state. Although the permit response and the judges' decisions apply only in Texas, the state is home to a large number of industrial plants, such as refineries and chemical plants, which produce large amounts of air pollution. Those emissions can transport downwind, causing problems for other states in attaining federal air quality standards.