Critics Likely Cannot Sue Over EPA's CEIP Authority, Attorney Says

July 15, 2016
Critics of EPA's existing power plant greenhouse gas (GHG) rule likely cannot legally challenge the agency's authority to create an early action incentive program alongside the rule because they failed to make such arguments in the pending litigation over the GHG regulation, which details much of the basis for the incentive program, an environmental lawyer says. “If people are saying there's a lack of authority for the” incentive program, it is “noteworthy that no one raised that claim in the...


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