High Court Declines To Hear Suits On EPA's SSM Policy, Gold King Spill

The Supreme Court has declined to hear an industry suit seeking to overturn an Obama administration policy that emissions limits apply even in cases of malfunctions as it applied to a boiler air toxics rule, leaving industry groups and the agency to now reconsider the broader issue of waivers for startup, shutdown and malfunctions (SSM) as they apply to state air quality plans. In a June 26 order , the court by a 7-2 vote also rejected New Mexico's petition...