D.C. Circuit Suspends Environmentalists' Appeal Of EPA Utility ELG Delays

A federal appeals court has halted environmentalists' suit that aimed to challenge the Trump EPA's multiple efforts to delay an Obama-era Clean Water Act (CWA) effluent rule for power plants, averting any potential conflict between the case and a separate appeals court suit over both the delays and the merits of the utility water regulation. In a Sept. 19 order , a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejects environmental groups' request...