Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-2013
Keywords
power plants, emissions, air quality
Abstract
The volume of NOX andSO2 emissions each year from unregulated, grandfathered power plants demonstrates that the goal of the CAA's PSD program, to ensure that air quality standards under NAAQS do not in effect become a ceiling, has achieved only limited success. One significant challenge under the PSD program is the difficulty associated with identifying major emitting facilities that have made major modiciations. This repeatedly results in statute-of-limitations problems for enforcement efforts. To resolve this enforcement difficulty, reviewing courts have split into two competing interpretations of the statutory and regulatory requirements of the PSD program. The proper interpretation of the CAA and the EPA's regulations demands that PSD requirements be interpreted to impose ongoing operational obligations.
Journal
43 Environmental Law Reporter 10607 (2013).
Disciplines
Environmental Law
Recommended Citation
43 Environmental Law Reporter 10607 (2013).