Środowisko i energia · 1.03.2010

Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit

In accordance with section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended ("CAA"), 42 U.S.C. 7413(g), notice is hereby given of a proposed consent decree to address a lawsuit filed by Environmental Integrity Project, Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper, Inc., Clean Water Action, and Chesapeake Climate Action Network (collectively "Plaintiffs") in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia: Environmental Integrity Project, et al. v. Jackson, No. 1:10- cv-165 (RJL) (D.D.C.). Plaintiffs filed a deadline suit to compel the Administrator to respond to an administrative petition seeking EPA's objection to a CAA Title V operating permit issued by the Maryland Department of the Environment to Wheelabrator Baltimore, LP ("Wheelabrator") for a municipal solid waste incinerator in Baltimore, Maryland. Under the terms of the proposed consent decree, EPA has agreed to respond to the petition by April 15, 2010.