ACE critics seek to stay suit until NSR rule completed

Environmental and health groups that oppose EPA’s Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) power plant greenhouse gas rule are urging appellate judges to pause their cause over the rule until the agency acts on a related rule to ease new source review (NSR) requirements and responds to administrative reconsideration petitions. If the request were granted, it would likely significantly stall the case, a stance at odds with EPA’s push for an expedited review. The groups in a Sept. 20 motion in American...