Litigants Clash Over EPA’s ‘Retroactive’ Boiler Rule As Oral Argument Looms

Industry and environmental groups have filed final briefs in a case over EPA air toxics limits for industrial boilers, clearing the way for a federal appellate court to schedule oral arguments that will test the agency’s adoption of standards that the industry parties say are unlawfully retroactive and wrongly apply to existing plants. While environmentalists are generally defending the agency’s approach, they charge officials ignored newer data and set impermissibly weak limits. Completion of briefing in the case , U.S....