Natural Resources Defense Council v. Department of Environmental Quality

In this appeal concerning the requirements of the federal Clean Air Act,1 petitioners Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club (petitioners) appeal as of right the circuit court’s order affirming a permit to install issued by respondent Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (the Department), which allows intervening respondent city of Holland’s Board of Public Works (individually and collectively, Holland) to install a new electric generating unit in an existing power plant. Petitioners contend that the circuit court applied the wrong standard of review and that the…