Utility's Appeal Seeks Power To Challenge DOI Findings On Haze Pollution

Electric utility Xcel Energy is pursuing an appeals court lawsuit aiming to win intervention in related litigation trying to force strict regional haze controls at a Minnesota coal utility the company owns, which could if successful give Xcel a chance to challenge Interior Department (DOI) findings on when facilities contribute to haze pollution. A federal district court has previously barred the company from intervening in a suit filed by environmentalists that aims to force EPA to determine whether the facility...