Environmental advocates sued EPA July 24 over what they said was the agency's inability to respond quickly enough to concerns over a central Pennsylvania power plant's air pollution permit. The Sierra Club and Environmental Integrity Project said in their complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that the Environmental Protection Agency violated the Clean Air Act by not responding within the mandatory 60-day time frame to a petition they had filed with EPA in October 2016 (Sierra Club v. Pruitt, D.D.C., No. 1:17-cv-1475, 7/24/17).
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