Amid Court Losses, OMB Begins Review Of EPA Plan To Ease Utility ELG

The White House regulatory office has begun reviewing EPA’s draft proposal to ease aspects of the Obama EPA’s Clean Water Act (CWA) power plant effluent rule, though the plan’s rationale may be undercut by a series of court losses the agency has suffered over the effluent rule and a related waste rule governing coal ash. The White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) says it received EPA’s plan Aug. 16, a rulemaking spurred by a years-old petition from the...