Litigation: Environmentalists criticize boiler MACT provisions

January 13, 2017
Environmentalists in a new legal filing are attacking various provisions of EPA's boiler maximum achievable control technology (MACT) air toxics rule, including startup and shutdown issues, and questions relating to EPA's use of carbon monoxide (CO) as a “surrogate” pollutant, that were unresolved in other litigation over the standards. EPA's MACT rule for major source boilers is now remanded to the agency by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, so that EPA can re-work a...


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