EPA Faces Dual Legal Bids Seeking To Force Issuance Of CAFO Air Rules

January 28, 2015
EPA faces dual legal bids seeking to force it to issue first-time Clean Air Act rules for concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), with one suit claiming the air law includes a duty for the agency to craft the regulations and another trying to force a deadline for EPA to respond to years-old petitions asking it to decide on issuing such rules. In response, EPA has said that it has discretion under prior appellate court rulings and the air law to...


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