Environmentalists Issue Legal Warning In Bid To Extend CCR Deadlines

Environmentalists are stepping up calls for EPA to extend comment deadlines for major deregulatory plans during the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing in the case of its coal ash rule that failing to act risks violating constitutional Due Process rights and statutory requirements. “[A] failure by EPA -- whose central mission is to protect public health and the environment -- to provide adequate time for the public to comment on proposed rules that would increase risks to public health during an unprecedented...