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States, cities sue EPA over New Source Review.(News)
Twelve states and several Northeast cities sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on October 27 to try to block the Bush administration's changes to the Clean Air Act (CAA).
Specifically at issue is the much-discussed portion of the Clean Air Act known as the New Source Review provision, which became final on October 27.
Foes argue that the new rule's relaxed definition of "routine maintenance" will result in increased pollution.
EPA said in a statement that it "does not believe that this rule will result in any significant changes in emissions. It is a rule that will boost the reliability, efficiency, and safety of industrial power plants while maintaining all of the CAA programs and standards that have driven down levels of emissions from power plants and other largo industrial sources."
The final rule states that replacement components must be "functionally equivalent" to existing components, i.e., there would be ...
- What's old is new: the problem with new source review: grandfathering has...
- Magazine article from: Regulation Hsu, Shi-Ling March 22, 2006 700+ words
...suspected of violating the Clean Air Act's "New Source Review" provisions. New Source Review requires the installation of state-of...existing plant. Thus far, Justice has reached New Source Review settlements with a variety of air-polluting...
- Rhodia Negotiates Consent Decree with USEPA to Resolve New Source Review Air...
- Press release article from: Business Wire April 26, 2007 700+ words
...S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and three states to resolve New Source Review (NSR) and New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) permitting issues associated with the company's sulfuric acid facilities...
- EPA Reform of New Source Review Process Attracts Interest of US Refining...
- Newspaper article from: The Oil Daily Dinesh, Manimoli June 8, 2000 700+ words
...tuned in with heightened interest to the new source review program reforms launched by the Environmental...need for streamlining and expediting the new source review permit process. A new source review (NSR), required under the Clean Air Act...
- Industry lobbies EPA on new source review.(Clean Air Act)(Environmental...
- Magazine article from: Chemical Week Sissell, Kara March 31, 2004 700+ words
...Washington) have written to EPA administrator Mike Leavitt urging the agency not to backtrack on its overhaul of the New Source Review (NSR) program. The groups are concerned that criticism of the changes to NSR by environmental groups and some...
- More reform; NSR policy needs work, engineer says.(News; New Source Review)
- Magazine article from: Waste News July 21, 2003 700+ words
...Agency's attempts to reform New Source Review have improved the program...construction company. Applying New Source Review to new construction projects...issue. The problems arise when New Source Review is applied to existing facilities...
- Statement from Duke Energy Chief Legal Officer Regarding 'New Source Review'...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 1, 2006 700+ words
...Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) "New Source Review" (NSR) program: "Duke Energy is pleased...source" emissions controls? - Under both New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) and New Source Review (NSR), a project is a "modification...
- Air regulations stirring debate; Utilities like New Source Review revisions.(US...
- Magazine article from: Waste News Truini, Joe June 24, 2002 700+ words
...a long, fierce battle over New Source Review regulations. The heart of the...whether the proposed changes to New Source Review rules will create more air pollution...emissions regulated by the EPA. The New Source Review reforms, submitted June 13...
- DOJ upholds new source review suits. (Clean Air Act).(US Department of Justice...
- Magazine article from: Chemical Week Sissell, Kara January 23, 2002 700+ words
...last week that it will pursue enforcement actions filed by the Clinton administration under the Clean Air Act's New Source Review (NSR) program. The Bush administration launched the review after industry complained that the NSR program threatens...