Court Remands Boiler MACT Limits To EPA, Extending Lengthy Rulemaking

March 16, 2018
Further extending a 25-year rulemaking, a federal appellate court has remanded some air toxics emissions limits for industrial, commercial and institutional boilers to EPA, agreeing with environmentalists that the agency failed to justify its use of a key carbon monoxide (CO) threshold as a proxy for toxic emissions. But in a unanimous March 16 decision , a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld EPA's use of “work practice standards” in lieu...


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