Midwest Utilities Warn EPA Over Aggressive Ozone Deal With Eastern States

The Midwest Ozone Group (MOG) of utilities and industrial companies is criticizing as unlawfully aggressive EPA’s proposed consent decree with East Coast states setting deadlines for agency action on state plans to mitigate interstate ozone pollution, escalating the group’s fight against EPA interstate ozone reduction mandates. While EPA has missed statutory deadlines to review state plans, MOG charged in part the proposed decree is unlawful because it provides EPA with a means of imposing federal requirements even though it may...