EPA Seeks To Dismiss Ohio Plant’s Coal Ash Suit, Citing D.C. Circuit Ruling

EPA is urging a federal court to dismiss Gavin Power’s challenge to the agency’s decision denying its request to extend its deadline to cease receipt of coal ash waste and initiate closure, charging the plaintiff lacks standing as the denial does not impose legal consequences other than the new closure deadline it sets, as affirmed by an appellate ruling. EPA filed an Oct. 15 motion to dismiss the power utility’s challenge in Gavin Power, LLC v. EPA, et al. ,...