A key appellate court has rejected a suit challenging EPA's denial of a petition to reject a Title V air permit for an Alaska oil and gas processing facility by finding the petitioner failed to "demonstrate" the permit was flawed, a novel ruling that may significantly raise the bar for environmentalists' challenges to Title V air permits, sources say.rn"To some extent, all petitions are affected" by the ruling "in that the standard is not clear" for what courts will require for the proof challengers need to submit in order to support their objections to a permit, an environmentalist attorney says.
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