States Defend Standing For Utility MACT High Court Case, Deny 'Mootness'

May 25, 2016
States urging the Supreme Court to again hear challenges to EPA's utility maximum achievable control technology (MACT) air toxics rule are defending their legal standing to sue by claiming “injury” due to economic harm on states from the rule, while also rejecting EPA's claim that its cost review of the rule makes the lawsuit moot. In a May 23 reply brief , a coalition of 20 states argue that even before the agency finalized the supplemental cost review April...


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