6.5 Up in the Air: Environmental Justice’s Evolving Role in Permitting

In addition to US EPA’s recent focus on environmental justice nationally, environmental justice is becoming more prominent in Georgia as well, with a recent challenge to an EPD air permit based on environmental justice concerns, as well as a complaint filed with US EPA Region IV alleging that Georgia is not complying with environmental justice regulations in its air permitting program. Learn about these and other environmental justice issues as they relate to siting and permitting facilities under the Clean Air Act.