Lawsuit Over EPA's Ash Rule Overhaul Aims To Halt Regulatory Rollback

Environmentalists are suing to overturn EPA's first step in a planned series of rollbacks to the Obama-era Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) coal ash disposal rule, citing a recent appellate ruling that said the 2015 rule is unlawfully weak as they aim to halt the Trump administration's attempt to further soften the regulation. A coalition of six environmental groups filed an Oct. 22 petition for review of EPA's rule that delayed some compliance dates in the 2015 standards and...