EPA's Landmark CCS Permits For FutureGen Draw Early Legal Challenge

EPA's first ever Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) permits for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) injections, which the agency issued last month for the planned FutureGen power plant, are drawing an early legal challenge from local landowners who charge that monitoring and financial assurance requirements are inadequate to protect drinking water. The agency's Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) Oct. 9 consolidated as a series of challenges -- now known as In re: FutureGen Industrial Alliance -- to the four Class...