EPA, Industry Spar Over Standing In Suit Challenging Climate Regulations

摘要

Epa and the power industry are sparring over whether the agency can cite a recent appellate ruling blocking home builders from challenging an Army Corps of Engineers permit to block industry's standing to challenge some of the agency's greenhouse gas (GHG) regulations in a major case that is slated for oral arguments next month. EPA is arguing in the consolidated case, Coalition for Responsible Regulation, et al. v. EPA, et ai, before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that industry petitioners do not have standing to challenge the agency's GHG tailoring and timing rules because they are not injured by those regulations, which ease Clean Air Act thresholds to prevent regulation of thousands of small sources under the prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) permit program.