Riverkeeper Plans to Reopen Lawsuit Against EPA Over Delayed Cooling Water Rule

摘要

The environmental group Riverkeeper will reopen its lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency after the agency told a federal court April 16 that it will once again miss the deadline for issuing a final cooling water intake rule affecting more than 1,200 power plants and factories (Riverkeeper v. Jackson, S.D.NY., No. 93-Civ-00314, 4/16/14). The EPA had been subject to an April 17 deadline to issue the final rule under an earlier agreement with Riverkeeper and was unable to renegotiate what would have been a sixth extension, U.S. Attorney Preet Bha-rara informed the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.