EPA Loses Fight Over Power Plant Startup Pollution Exemption (2)

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The EPA will have to reconsider its decision to exempt certain power plants from toxic air pollution limits in the first few hours of operation, the D.C. Circuit said Friday in remanding the agency's rule.The Environmental Protection Agency was unable to explain why the public wasn't allowed to comment on the agency's startup exemption, when the technology allows for controls to be in place right when a power plant begins operating, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled on Friday.