Federal appeals court rules EPA can halt power plant construction

[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [official website] can suspend power plant construction projects before project completion based on evidence that a plant is underestimating the extent to which the project will affect its aggregate pollutant emissions. The Clean Air Act (CAA) [text, PDF] forbids the construction of new sources of air pollution without a permit, but excepts sources already in operation unless the...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/03/federal-appeals-court-rules-epa-can-halt-power-plant-construction.php

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