EPA Rejects Granting SO2 Allowances For Waste Coal Plants In CAIR

EPA's new clean air interstate rule (CAIR) rejects a request by Pennsylvania and industry for eased sulfur dioxide (SO2) requirements on facilities that burn coal mining wastes to produce electricity, a rejection that could prompt a lawsuit by critics of the rule. Coal mining waste is plentiful in Pennsylvania, and burning it to produce electricity has been encouraged by the state as a useful way to reduce piles of the potential groundwater and soil pollutant. But proponents of burning coal...