Environmentalists Urge EPA To Revive Plans For Coalbed Methane ELG

January 30, 2015
Environmentalists are urging EPA to reverse its recent decision to scrap a planned Clean Water Act (CWA) effluent limitation guideline (ELG) and revive the rulemaking effort, arguing in a recent meeting with agency and White House officials that coalbed methane (CBM) effluent discharges are creating major harm to waterbodies that justifies an ELG. Representatives from the Clean Water Action, the Environmental Defense Fund, and other advocacy groups met with administration officials Jan. 9 to push for resuming work on the...

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