Earlier this week, the Georgia-based environmental law firm GreenLaw and the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) filed five administrative challenges to permits and decisions recently issued by the Georgia Environmental Protection Department (EPD), concerning two proposed Georgia coal-fired power plants.  The challenges, all petitions for hearings, were filed on behalf of several southern environmental groups.
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Readers may recall that nearly a year ago, we reported that Indeck Energy had sued several New York state agencies, along with Gov. David Patterson, to halt implementation of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) – the regional cap-and-trade scheme adopted by ten northeastern states, including New York.  Indeck’s lawsuit alleged that New York did [...]

The Dallas Morning News blog “Texas Energy & Environment” reports today that Public Citizen has filed a lawsuit against the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) in Travis County District Court, alleging that the agency’s rules “are invalid because they allow unlimited CO2 emissions in violation of the Texas Clean Air Act, which requires TCEQ [...]