EPA, Environmentalists Counter Industry Bid To Stay ‘Legacy’ Coal Ash Rule

EPA and environmental intervenors are pushing the D.C. Circuit to let the agency implement its final rule governing power plants’ “legacy” coal combustion residual (CCR) surface impoundments and other CCR management units (CCRMU), saying industry groups seeking a stay have mischaracterized the rule’s requirements and overstated its costs. The East Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC), one of a host of industry groups challenging the coal ash rule, “has not met its burden to justify the extraordinary remedy of a stay pending...