Federal Court Upholds EPA’s Reversal of Toxic Air Policy (3)

The EPA can finally apply its new reading of a toxic air pollution policy that will allow some power plants and refineries to escape pollution controls, after a federal appeals court’s ruling on Wednesday.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected a petition by California and a Sierra Club-led coalition of environmental groups to reconsider the court’s August ruling that reversed the 1995 air permitting policy known as “once in, always in.”

The decades-old policy required power plants, refineries, and other industrial factories to keep running pollution ...