Post_Trib’s Assault on IDEM Continues
The Gary Post-Tribune has run a long series of articles calling IDEM to account for its varied short comings. Gitte Laasby continues this process today, covering the BP Plant permit:
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management refuses to answer certain questions about the timing of a public hearing on BP’s air permit.
Among them: Who at IDEM was responsible for ignoring state law and providing inadequate notice of the hearing?
As the Post-Tribune revealed in April, IDEM’s chief of the permits branch of the Office of Air Quality, Matt Stuckey, e-mailed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in January to ask how long was the required notice. He was told state law applies.
State law specifies it’s 30 days, but IDEM scheduled a hearing with 18 to 20 days notice.
Now IDEM won’t say who at the agency made the call to ignore state law.
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