EPA to finalize ACE climate rule in 'second quarter' of 2019

A top EPA official says the agency will finalize its narrow replacement for the Obama-era Clean Power Plan (CPP) utility greenhouse gas standards in the “second quarter” of 2019, a timeline that represents at least a slight delay to its earlier goal to finish the measure in March. The status update came during Feb. 7 remarks from EPA General Counsel Matt Leopold, during an American Law Institute-Continuing Legal Education (ALI-CLE) conference in Washington, D.C., in which he added that the...