Environmentalists Raise Early Legal Attacks Over Plan To Delay Utility ELG

摘要

Environmentalists are raising early legal attacks on EPA's proposal to indefinitely delay many provisions of the Obama-era power plant effluent limitation guideline (ELG) by arguing no federal law allows such a stay, though utilities and coal companies argue the the delay is needed to avoid unnecessary compliance costs. In comments filed ahead of a July 5 deadline for input on the proposal, a coalition of environmental groups calls for EPA to withdraw the plan entirely, charging that there is no law giving it the power to halt implementation of an ELG and that even if the regulatory stay was within the agency's authority, it has offered no evidence that a delay is needed.