EPA To Halt, Reconsider Utility ELG But Environmentalists Persist With Suit

EPA is preparing to halt implementation of the Obama-era Clean Water Act (CWA) power plant effluent rule while the Trump administration weighs revising the policy in response to industry petitions, though environmentalists are pledging to continue litigation where they hope to defend the rule and force EPA to make it stricter. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt wrote the Utility Water Act Group (UWAG) and the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Advocacy on April 12 to announce that he will reconsider...