Potential Vacatur Of Utility MACT Unlikely To Have Major Impact On Sector

April 22, 2015
The Supreme Court's possible vacatur of EPA's utility air toxics rule is unlikely to have a major impact on the power plant sector despite its years-long push to scrap the rule, sources say, because the rule's April 16 compliance deadline has now passed and most companies have already taken irreversible steps to comply or shutter their plants. One industry attorney says that 65 percent of the coal-fired utility sector is already in compliance with the utility maximum achievable control technology...


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