EPA Downplays MACT Liability

A top EPA air official is downplaying utilities' concerns that they could face citizen suits for failing to comply with the agency's air toxics rule if they win an EPA order giving them up to five years to meet the standard, saying citizen groups' resource limits and other factors diminish that risk. “Don't take it as a given that operating under an administrative order in the real world is going to create actual liability and actual costs from ancillary legal...