( December 1, 2023, 4:00 PM EST) -- PHILADELPHIA — The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency exceeded the limits of the Clean Air Act (CAA) by requiring the new owner of an existing petroleum refinery in the Virgin Islands to obtain a permit under the CAA’s new source review (NSR) program because the refinery was neither constructed nor modified after 1977 and is therefore not subject to the program, a Third Circuit U. S. Court of Appeals panel found in granting the owner’s petition for review. . . .