The Fifth Circuit held that it lacked jurisdiction to review petitions challenging EPA's objection to three CAA Title V permits issued by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality for a proposed ironmaking facility. The state agency issued three separate Title V permits for the facility, and...

The Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal of an environmental group's challenge to a CAA permit that allows an oil company to conduct "pollutant emitting activities" associated with a drilling vessel in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's North Slope. CAA §504(e) is ambiguous as to whether "increment" requi...