EPA Utility MACT 'Startup' Waiver Conflicts With SSM Ruling, Critics Claim

March 2, 2015
EPA's decision to give utilities a four-hour exemption from its maximum achievable control technology (MACT) air toxics rule for the sector during facility “startups” conflicts with an appellate ruling barring air toxics rule exemptions and saying MACT limits must apply at all times of startup, shutdown and malfunction (SSM), advocates claim. Environmentalists outlined their push-back on the utility MACT revisions in a recent filing in litigation over the changes, as well as an administrative petition for EPA to reconsider the...


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