Utility MACT critics list costs they claim EPA ignored

February 28, 2017
States and industry groups opposed to the Obama EPA's power plant maximum achievable control technology (MACT) rule are listing multiple ways in which the agency failed to consider the rule's costs as required by the Supreme Court, though it is not clear how the Trump administration will proceed on the issue. In a reply brief filed Feb. 24 in Murray Energy Corp., et al., v. EPA, et al. , states and industry groups opposed to the MACT standard list ways...


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