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Environmental Notes - April 2025

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Under the Clean Air Act, sources frequently must undergo “New Source Review” (NSR) permitting, which is a pre-construction permitting program. NSR establishes requirements for new or modified sources prior to initiating...more

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Frequently Asked Air Questions (FAAQs): Synthetic Minor Permits, One-Time Doubling & Sham Permits

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Under the Clean Air Act, sources frequently must undergo “New Source Review” (NSR) permitting, which is a pre-construction permitting program. NSR establishes requirements for new or modified sources prior to initiating...more

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Title V/Clean Air Act: Petition to Object Filed Addressing Scotia, California Biomass Facility

The Environmental Protection Information Center and Humboldt Coalition for Clean Energy (collectively, “EPIC”) filed a January 3rd Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

Injunctive Relief Is Available Outside the Fenceline

On Monday, District Judge Rodney Sippel ordered sweeping injunctive relief against Ameren Missouri, intended to remedy violations of PSD requirements he had previously identified resulting from upgrades to the Ameren Missouri...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

EPA Wins Another Round In PSD Litigation: More Evidence that the Program Is Flawed.

Last Monday, in a comprehensive, 189-page opinion, Judge Rodney Sippel ruled that Ameren Missouri had violated EPA’s PSD regulations by failing to get permits for upgrades in 2007 and 2010 at its Rush Island facility. As I...more

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Locke Lord QuickStudy: EPA Stakes Out Approach to Address GHG Permitting for Authorized Sources Affected

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On December 19, 2014 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued two memoranda outlining the Agency’s planned response to the Supreme Court’s June 2014 decision in Utility Air Regulatory Group (UARG) v. Environmental...more

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EPA Seeks Rehearing in Major Clean Air Act Case

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Last week, EPA filed a petition for rehearing in United States v. Midwest Generation, LLC, 720 F.3d 644 (7th Cir. July 8, 2013) (filed September 3). This petition, which argues that the government is not barred by the...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

We Still Don’t Need No Stinkin Cooperative Federalism: The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Holds that GHG Sources Require PSD...

Last Friday, I posted about the limits to EPA’s cooperation with states in the name of “cooperative federalism” under the Clean Air Act. On the same day, in Texas v. EPA, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals only emphasized my...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

EPA Loses Another PSD Case: The Clean Air Act is “Extraordinarily Rigid”

In Sierra Club v. EPA, issued today, The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected EPA’s rules governing “significant impact levels” and “significant monitoring concentrations” for determining PSD permitting...more

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