OMB Review Of EPA Cooling Water Rule Raises Questions On ESA Study

EPA has sent its final rule governing cooling water intakes at power plants for White House review, signaling the agency is on track to meet a Nov. 4 consent decree deadline for issuing the rule but raising questions over how the tight timeline might affect a formal Endangered Species Act (ESA) review of the rule that EPA has requested. The Clean Water Act section 316(b) rule for utilities and other industrial facilities was received at the White House Office of...