Air Permit Flexibility Not Going Beyond Power Sector: EPA’s Wehrum

The EPA doesn’t have any plans to extend the proposed air permitting flexibility for power plants to other industrial sectors, the agency’s air chief says.

“The answer is no, It doesn’t mean forever, but for now, the answer is no,” Bill Wehrum, the Environmental Protection Agency’s assistant administrator for air and radiation, told Bloomberg Environment in a Dec. 7 interview when asked about extending the proposal.

For now, Wehrum wants to limit the changes the EPA is proposing to the “new source review” permitting program, as part of a broader rewrite of the Obama-era’s Clean Power Plan, to ...