EPA details plans for scrutiny of Utah coal plants

摘要

U.S. EPA plans to offer a new regional haze plan for Utah after completing air quality modeling simulations this spring, agency lawyers said In a status report filed yesterday with the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.rnEPA agreed last July to administratively reconsider the 2016 Obama-era plan, which would have required new pollution controls on two coal-fired power plants in central Utah owned by PacifiCorp.rnThe 10th Circuit then stayed litigation brought by the state and the Oregon-based power producer, but ordered EPA to keep it posted every 90 days on the status of the reconsideration process SGreenwire. Sept. 11,2017).