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GREEN NEWS * USA - Supreme Court won't review decision that closed EPA emissions 'loophole'
Washington,DC,USA -E & E Publishing, by Gabriel Nelson -8 March 2010: -- The Supreme Court declined today to review a lower court's ruling prohibiting U.S. EPA from suspending normal emissions standards for major pollution sources during "startup, shutdown and malfunction" (SSM) periods... Environmental groups praised the court's decision not to grant review in American Chemistry Council v. Sierra Club, saying the policy struck down in 2008 had created a "loophole" for polluters. In some cases, industrial facilities have evaded federal emissions restrictions by using the SSM exemption during times of normal operation, the groups said in a statement today... "Startups, shutdowns and malfunctions create some of the highest volumes and worst toxic air pollution released by large industrial factories, and nearby communities suffer the horrible impacts of the chemicals dumped into their air supply," said Neil Carman, a former Texas state refinery inspector, who is now air director at the Sierra Club's Texas chapter... (Images from wikimedia.org/wikipedia: Air pollution)
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