D.C. Circuit Questions Industry's Standing In Lawsuit Over EPA DSW Rule

March 22, 2017
A federal appeals court is questioning whether industry has legal standing for part of its suit over the Obama EPA's definition of solid waste (DSW) rule, asking for new briefs on whether industry has a right to contest a regulatory exclusion in the rule even though petitioners never used a weaker exclusion in a Bush-era version of the rule. In a March 21 order , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on its own...


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