EPA Eyes 2019 For Completing Two-Step Plan To Overhaul Coal Ash Rule

EPA is pledging to finish an overhaul of the Obama-era Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) coal ash disposal rule no later than December 2019 but could finalize a first step of revisions much sooner by combining them with another set of revisions the agency started work on in 2016 but is yet to formally propose. The agency set out a two-phase timeline for reconsidering the ash rule in a Nov. 15 filing to the U.S. Court of Appeals for...