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The Environmental Integrity Project, Texas Environmental, Justice Advocacy Services, Caring for Pasadena Communities, and Sierra Club (collectively, “EIP”) submitted an August 19th Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”)...more
The Sierra Club and Environmental Integrity Project (collectively, “Sierra Club”) submitted a June 9th Clean Air Act Title V objection styled: Petition Requesting that the Administrator Object to the Minor Permit...more
On February 10, 2023, the Sixth Circuit issued an opinion in Sierra Club, et al. v. U.S. EPA, et al., (Case No. 21-3057). The case involved a petition for review filed by the Sierra Club, the Ohio Environmental Council, and...more
The Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a June 7th Order granting a Petition objecting to the issuance of a Clean Air Act Title V Operating Permit (“Permit”) to the Colver Power...more
The Sierra Club filed an objection to a Clean Air Act Title V Revised Operating Permit before the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) through a document styled: PETITION FOR OBJECTION...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (“Eighth Circuit”) addressed in an August 20th Opinion whether a federal court had the authority to order injunctive relief for past violations of the Clean Air Act....more
The Environmental Integrity Project and Sierra Club (collectively “Petitioners”) filed a July 22nd Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator related...more
The Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club (collectively “Sierra Club”) filed a Complaint in District Court (Adams County, Colorado) challenging the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Air Pollution...more
The United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit (“Court”) addressed in a May 29th decision a challenge to a Clean Air Act (“Act”) Title V Permit issued to an ExxonMobil Baytown, Texas Olefin plant (“Plant”). See...more
Major sources of air pollution must obtain a Clean Air Act Title V permit under their state’s EPA- approved implementation plan. Permits, of course, can be challenged. By petition to the EPA Administrator, the Sierra Club...more
The Sierra Club filed a September 7th Petition for Review (“Petition”) of a Clean Air Act Prevention of Significant Deterioration Permit (“PSD Permit”) that was issued to the Tucson Electric Power Irvington/H.Wilson Sundt...more
The law is full of fine distinctions. Today’s example? A divided 10th Circuit panel affirmed dismissal of the Sierra Club’s citizen suit claims against Oklahoma Gas and Electric concerning alleged PSD violations at OG&E’s...more
In response to a petition for final rule-making filed by the Sierra Club, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued on May 22, 2015, its final action requiring 36 states to revise their state implementation plans...more
In Sierra Club v. Environmental Protection Agency, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 1408 (D.C. Cir. Jan. 22, 2013), the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision that is likely to have a significant impact on...more