Doubting Harms, EPA Fights States’, Industry Bid To Stay Power Plant ELG

August 21, 2024
EPA is urging a federal appeals court to reject requests from states and industry groups to stay its rule setting effluent limitations guidelines (ELGs) for coal-fired power plants, charging that the petitioners fail to show irreparable harm while doubting they will succeed on their merits arguments related to the agency’s cost estimates. Movants “fail to justify the extraordinary remedy of a stay,” EPA says in its Aug. 20 response in opposition to industry and state challengers’ bid to stay EPA’s...


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