States, Utilities Spar With Environmentalists Over CSAPR 'Update' Rule

September 19, 2017
States and electric utilities are squaring off against environmentalists in litigation over the Obama EPA's 2016 “update” to its Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) emissions trading system that tightened state emissions limits, or budgets, to help states comply with the agency's 2008 ozone air standard. In opening briefs filed Sept. 18 in State of Wisconsin, et al. v. EPA, et al. , states and industry are challenging the update rule for being unlawfully stringent, based on alleged flaws in EPA's...


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