EPA Responds to Ruling

摘要

In November 2008, a US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) decision rejected a federal permit for Deseret Power's Utah coal plant at Bonanza, Utah (USA) (see BATE, December 2008). The panel said that EPA's Denver office failed to adequately support its decision to issue the permit without requiring best available control technology (BACT) to control emissions of carbon dioxide (CO_2). It remanded the case to the Denver office to "reconsider whether or not to impose a ... limit [on CO_2]." At the time, David Bookbinder, a Sierra Club lawyer, said the decision "[Is] going to stop everything while EPA mulls over what to do next" about controlling CO_2. EPA apparently agreed, and the agency made sure it didn't mull over what to do for very long.