The Latest On: Clean Air Act
Adrian Martinez, Attorney, California Regional Office, Earthjustice: “There’s ways they can address the impacts, but it needs to be a smaller project and there needs to be real requirements to clean up a significant amount of pollution. Even a project half or a quarter of the size would still be one of the largest in the nation.”
Neil Gormley, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Earthjustice: “[The emails show] that even OMB agreed with public health and environmental groups and EPA’s independent science advisers that EPA should have grappled with new information showing that the benefits of MATS are much greater than EPA estimated and the costs much lower.”
Corinne Van Dalen, Attorney, Fossil Fuels Program, Earthjustice: “A company cannot hold onto a PSD permit indefinitely hoping that one day market conditions will be right so it can attract investors and begin construction in earnest.”
Adrian Martinez, Attorney, California Regional Office, Earthjustice: “Polluting industries have over the last couple decades built up a significant lobbying presence at AQMD to make it really painful and hard to adopt regulations, to increase fees for the agency to do its job and to develop a real air cleanup plan. And this is when that effort really shines.”
