The phrase "air pollution permit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a legal authorization required for activities that may emit pollutants into the air.
Example: "Before starting construction, the company must obtain an air pollution permit from the environmental agency."
Alternatives: "air quality permit" or "pollution control permit".
The company's plans were set back again at the end of December 2010 when an E.P.A. panel revoked the air pollution permit for one of its drilling rigs.
Hearings recently began on an appeal by opponents of that air pollution permit.
Responding to public comments on the air pollution permit for Xcel's Valmont coal-fired power plant in Boulder, the Colorado Air Pollution Control Division recently rejected calls to keep carbon dioxide emission in check at the plant.
In recent weeks, new information has emerged revealing that Arizona regulators, ostensibly charged with protecting public health and safety, exchanged nearly three dozen emails with the governor's office that could show inappropriate and impermissible political influence in deliberations over Rosemont's air pollution permit.
While that decision is supposed to be based only on technical and scientific public health information, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality ADEQQ) has admitted that it had been engaging in a "deliberative process" with Governor Jan Brewer's office about the Rosemont air pollution permit -- and that those deliberations had nothing to do with protecting public health.
Save the Scenic Santa Ritas, the southern Arizona coalition that filed the appeal, will present experts and evidence showing that Rosemont received their air pollution permit by manipulating scientific data to hide potential violations of state and federal air pollution standards.
The sites have an average of 100 other plants with air pollution permits within one mile of them.
The Environmental Protection Agency says that Shell committed numerous violations of the air pollution permits for its two Arctic drill ships, adding to the company's catalog of Alaskan offshore woes.
Chevron has violated the Clean Air Act on numerous occasions and is now being investigated in Alaska for knowingly violating air pollution permits.
"There was no effort to identify, evaluate or apply available technologies that would control CO2 emissions and the permit contains no CO2 emission limits," Moore wrote in her June 30 ruling, overturning a lower court's decision to issue an air-pollution permit to Dynegy's Longleaf power plant near Columbus, Georgia.
The E.P.A. has insisted that the state's air-pollution permitting system for big plants is too lax.
