DESCRIPTION: Comments opposing the proposed rule eliminating public participation requirements for “minor” new source review permitting
TO: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin
FROM: 1000 Friends of Wisconsin; 198 methods; 350 Bay Area Action; 350 Conejo / San Fernando Valley; 350 Seattle; 350 Triangle; Allegheny County Clean Air Now (ACCAN); Adenium Consulting LLC; Air Alliance Houston; Alaska Community Action on Toxics; Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley; Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments; Alsen St Irma Lee Community Village; American Sustainable Business Network; Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center, Inc.; Appalachian Voices; ARTivism Virginia; Bay Area-System Change not Climate Change; Benicia Good Neighbor Steering Committee; Benicians For A Safe and Healthy Community (BSHC); Between the Waters; Beyond Plastics; Blue & Green Planet, Ltd; Bordentown Historical Society; Breathe Project; C.H.E.S.S.; California Communities Against Toxics; Center for Environmental Health; Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL); Center for Progressive Reform; Central California Environmental Justice Network; Cherokee Concerned Citizens; Chesapeake Climate Action Network; Church Women United in New York State; Citizens Safe Water Around Badger (CSWAB); Clean Air Action Network of Glens Falls; Clean Air Coalition of Greater Ravena-Coeymans; Clean Air Coalition of North Whittier and Avocado Heights; Clean Air Council; Clean Air Task Force; Clean Power Lake County; Clean Water Action; Clean Water for North Carolina; Clean+Healthy; CleanAIRE NC; Cleveland Heights Green Team; Climate Action Campaign at Humboldt UU Fellowship; Climate Crisis Working Group of Moore County; Coalition for Smarter Growth; Coming Clean Network; Community Climate Collaborative (C3); Concerned Citizens of Northampton County; Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety; Concerned Citizens of Cook County; Concerned Citizens of St John; Conservation Law Center; Concerned Citizens of Spartanburg County; COPAL, Comunidades Organizando el Poder y la Acción Latina; Conservation Law Foundation; Deep South Center for Environmental Justice; Data Center Defiance Central Virginia; Don’t Waste Arizona; Dogwood Alliance; Earthjustice; Earth Ethics, Inc.; Ecological Rights Foundation; Earthworks; Edgcombe Neighbors for Data Center Accountability; EJTF -Unitarian Universalist Faith Action; Elders Climate Action; Environmental Health Project; Environmental Integrity Project; Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform; Environmental Justice Initiative; Environmental Law & Policy Center; Faith in Place; FoCo Trash Mob; Food & Water Watch; For a Better Bayou; FreshWater Accountability Project; Friends of Dyke Marsh; Gary Advocates for Responsible Development (GARD); GASP; Georgia Interfaith Power and Light; Good Neighbor Steering Committee of Benicia; Greater Greener Gloster Project; Greater New Orleans Interfaith Climate Coalition; Green Science Policy Institute; Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice; Habitable; Habitat Recovery Project; Healthy Gulf; Hoosier Environmental Council; Southern Environmental Law Center; Midlothian Breathe; Iowa Environmental Council; Just Zero; Just Transition Northwest Indiana; KY Environmental Foundation; Kentucky Resources Council; Live Well Charlotte; League of Conservation Voters; Louisiana Bucket Brigade; Lynnhaven River NOW; Memphis Community Against Pollution; Metropolitan Housing Coalition; Mi Tierra Farm LLC; Micah 6:8 Mission; Interfaith Creation Care of the Triangle – Advocacy Team; Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy; Louise Quigley Advisory; Mobile Environmental Justice Action Coalition; Mothers & Others For Clean Air; National Conference of Black Lawyers- NC Chapter; National Lawyers Guild- Environmental Justice Committee; National Parks Conservation Association; NC Climate Justice Collective; NC Climate Solutions Coalition; NC Conservation Network; NC Environmental Justice Network; NC WARN; New Hope Community Development Group, Inc.; New Mexico Environmental Law Center; No Data Center 502; Northern Lake County Environmental Partnership; Northern Virginia Bird Alliance; Ocean Conservation Research; People Over Petro Coalition; People Over Pipelines; Pesticide Action and Agroecology Network; Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles; Pitt Co. Coalition Against Racism; Plastic Free America; PODER; Ponca Nation; Port Arthur Community Action Network (PACAN); Protect All Children’s Environment; Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER); Quantum Compliance; ReSolve Analytix; Resource Renewal Institute; Respiratory Health Association; Richmond County Coalition For Justice and Black Empowerment; Rio Grande International Study Center; Rise St. James Louisiana; Rockbridge Conservation; S.C. Coastal Conservation League; San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council; Santa Cruz Climate Action Network; Savannah Riverkeeper; Save Old York; Science and Environmental Health Network; Science for Georgia, Inc.; SEE (Social Eco Education); Seneca Lake Guardian; Sierra Club; Sierra Upstate; South Carolina Coastal Conservation League; Southern Alliance for Clean Energy; Stop Waste Tucson; Sunflower Alliance; Sustainable Newton; Terra Advocati; Tewa Women United; Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services; The Alliance for Affordable Energy; The Alliance for Appalachia; The Descendants Project; The Last Beach Cleanup; The Last Plastic Straws; The Piedmont Environmental Council; The Quantum Institute; The Southwest Virginia Data Center Transparency Alliance; Third Act Maine; Toxic Free NC; Turtle Island Restoration Network; Union of Concerned Scientists; Until Justice Data Partners; US Environmental Watch; Virginia Interfaith Power & Light; Volunteers for Environmental Health and Justice; VOTE SoAR (Visibility Outreach Touch Engage South Arkansas); Waterspirit; WE ACT for Environmental Justice; West End Revitalization Association (WERA); West Jefferson County Community Task Force; WildEarth Guardians; Woodsdale and Trenton Environmental Resistance; Young, Gifted & Green
DATE: August 21, 2026
TAGS: EPA, air quality, air pollution
