ATTORNEY GENERAL BONTA JOINS COALITION OPPOSING ROLLBACK OF AIR POLLUTION PERMITTING PROGRAM

SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 30 -- The California Attorney General issued the following press release:

OAKLAND-California Attorney GeneralRob Bonta today joined a coalition in opposing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposal to allow construction to begin at major sources of air pollution without first obtaining a New Source Review (NSR) permit. An NSR permit is a pre-construction air pollution permit that ensures industrial facilities, factories, and power plants install modern pollution controls when they are newly built or undergo major modifications.The EPA's proposal would abandon a nearly 50-year-old approach to interpreting the Clean Air Act simply to satisfy new deregulatory policies and would constrain state permitti...