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Sierra Club: EPA Takes Positive Step on Startup Shutdown and Malfunction Clean Air Act Loophole
March 31, 2022
WASHINGTON, March 31 (TNSPol) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release:

Earlier this week, the EPA proposed removing the emergency affirmative defense provisions from operating permit regulations in Title V of the Clean Air Act (CAA).

This proposal seeks to close one of multiple loopholes within the CAA regulations, which permit industrial facilities, such as coal plants and oil refineries, to release unlimited amounts of dangerous air pollution during star . . .

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