D.C. Circuit signals interest in rehearing CWA 'blending' case

A federal appeals court has ordered EPA to file a formal response to a municipal wastewater group's bid for rehearing of its suit seeking to limit the agency's Clean Water Act (CWA) authority to regulate “blending” at wastewater treatment plants -- a signal that judges may be seriously considering the rehearing request. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit filed an unsigned order April 18 in Center for Regulatory Reasonableness (CRR) v. EPA , giving the...