Environmentalists Expand FOIA Suit Over EPA's Power Plant ELG Changes

摘要

Environmentalists are expanding a suit seeking documents tied to the inter-agency review of EPA's pending revision to effluent standards for steam-electric power plants, adding the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to an existing complaint against the Small Business Administration (SBA). If successful, the suit could grant advocates access to hundreds of pages of documents that could help them make the political or legal case that EPA's proposed effluent limitation guideline (ELG) revision was substantially weakened due to industry pressure during OMB review.