US EPA could ‘split’ permitting changes from coal plant rule, air chief says

Joseph Goffman, senior legal counsel in the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation in the Obama administration, said in a Feb. 12 interview that the agency is likely considering the NSR changes as a separate action to reduce legal risk as it seeks to finalize a replacement to the Clean Power Plan. “Proposing the NSR changes separately, to some degree, reduces the vulnerability of a final ACE,” he said.

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