Advocates Contest Use Of 'Surrogates,' Startup Exemptions In Boiler Rule

July 21, 2016
Environmentalists are charging that EPA's revised air toxics rule for large industrial, commercial and institutional (ICI) boilers is unlawful because the agency relied on carbon monoxide (CO) limits as a “surrogate” for specific limits on toxics emissions, retained CO limits less-stringent than those in earlier versions of the rule, and relaxed controls for boilers during periods of startup and shutdown. In their July 20 opening brief in Sierra Club, et al. v. EPA, et al. , now before the U.S...


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