INDUSTRY WEIGHS CASE-BY-CASE PERMIT CHALLENGES AFTER COURT REJECTION

Industry officials may challenge EPA's whole effluent toxicity (WET) tests on a permit-by-permit basis, an industry attorney says, after a federal circuit court rejected industry efforts to rehear arguments over the reliability of the WET tests. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied a request April 14 by the Western Coalition of Arid States and an industry group called the WET Coalition to rehear arguments in Edison Electric Institute (EEI), et al. v. EPA, et...