D.C. Circuit Urged To Impose Emergency Suspension Of EPA Utility MACT

July 31, 2015
A Western electric utility is urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to impose an emergency suspension of an acid gas emissions limit in EPA's remanded utility air toxics rule, citing lingering doubts over the fate of the rule following a Supreme Court ruling faulting EPA's initial justification for the rule. In a July 31 emergency motion , Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association asks the D.C. Circuit to issue an order before Sept. 1 suspending...


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