Briefing Schedule Filed for Challenge To Coal Ash Rule From Industry, Advocates

摘要

The briefing schedule for a challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's coal ash rule (RIN 2050-AE81) was filed Oct. 19 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (Util. Solid Waste Activities Grp. v. EPA, D.C. Cir., No. 15-1219, motion filed 10/19/15). Both industry and environmental groups are suing the agency over its coal ash rule-industry on the grounds that it imposes burdensome requirements, and environmentalists on the grounds that it does not adequately protect people and the environment from the harms of coal ash. Environmental petitioners will ask the court to leave the rule in place while the EPA fixes key problems on remand, according to the motion. In contrast, industry petitioners will seek to have the rule or Dortions of it vacated, the motion said.