API Challenges EPA Cooling Water Rule's 'New Unit' Technology Mandates

May 23, 2016
The American Petroleum Institute (API) is asking a federal appeals court to scrap a portion of EPA's Clean Water Act (CWA) rule for permitting cooling water intake structures that applies to “new units” at many classes of facilities, arguing the term is defined so vaguely that it was impossible for stakeholders to adequately comment on it. API's May 20 brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in Cooling Water Intake Structure Coalition (CWISC), et al.,...


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