Judges Question Redressability Of EPA’s State Coal Ash Program Approval

Federal appellate judges are questioning whether they can provide judicial relief to environmentalists challenging EPA’s first-time approval of Oklahoma’s permit program for coal ash disposal, suggesting the groups would be worse off if the court voids the agency’s approval of the state program as that would revert it back to coverage under a 2015 EPA rule. During oral argument Jan. 19 before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, environmentalists in Waterkeeper Alliance, Inc., et al. v....