Credit DTE Energy
DTE Energy and state regulators have asked the Court of Appeals to reconsider a decision affecting a permit for the utility's new gas plant.
The company is building a billion gas plant in St. Clair County.
Nick Leonard is the executive director of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center. He says the Court of Appeals rightly decided that state regulators ignored their own permitting process.
Leonard says regulators did not require DTE to study pre-existing ozone levels before they issued a permit.
Ozone can hurt people with lung problems as well as young children and even healthy people who exercise outdoors.