EPA’s Coal Ash Rule Joins Other Power Sector Rules Facing Stay Requests

A Kentucky power co-op challenging EPA’s final rule governing power plants’ “legacy” coal combustion residual (CCR) surface impoundments and other CCR management units (CCRMU) is seeking a stay of the rule pending judicial review, the fourth of four EPA power sector rules the agency recently issued that petitioners are now seeking to stay. East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc. (EKPC), one of the petitioners in City Utilities of Springfield, Missouri v. EPA, et al. , which is pending in the U.S...