A federal appeals court should force the Environmental Protection Agency to issue long-overdue Clean Water Act discharge permits by June 2017 for two coal-fired power plants in New Hampshire, the Sierra Club said in a petition filed Nov. 23 (In re Sierra Club Inc., 1st Cir., No. 16-02415, 11/23/16). The environmental group claims the EPA has failed since the 1990s to update national pollutant discharge elimination system permits to regulate toxic wastewater discharges from the Merrimack and Schiller coal-fired power plants, which are operated by Ever-source Energy.
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