3rd Circuit: EPA Erred In Requiring Virgin Islands Refinery To Obtain Permit

(December 1, 2023, 4:00 PM EST) -- PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency exceeded the limits of the Clean Air Act (CAA) by requiring the new owner of an existing petroleum refinery in the Virgin Islands to obtain a permit under the CAA’s new source review (NSR) program because the refinery was neither constructed nor modified after 1977 and is therefore not subject to the program, a Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel found in granting the owner’s petition for review....