The EPA will narrow the use of an air permitting program for new sources of pollution, according to a final rule to be published Friday.
The new rule curtails the ways citizens can fight against permits for major air emitters or facilities that emit certain pollutants. But to the Environmental Protection Agency, the rule clarifies the “limited situations” in which New Source Review preconstruction permits would be reviewed under Title V of the Clean Air Act.
Title V requires certain facilities to get a single permit, good for five years, which include stipulations on how each facility must control its …