EPA Fights Multiple Legal Attacks In Suit Over MACT For Existing Utilities

摘要

EPA is fighting multiple legal attacks by the power sector, states and environmentalists in final briefing in litigation over the agency's utility maximum achievable control technology (MACT) air toxics rule for existing utilities, broadly rejecting competing claims that the rule is either weaker or stricter than the Clean Air Act requires. The suit, White Stallion Energy Center, LLC, et al. v. EPA, is one of several challenges to EPA's utility emissions rules pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Other cases include a suit over EPA's MACT for newly constructed power plants; its new source performance standards for new and existing utilities; and a rule on emissions requirements during startup, shutdown and malfunction periods at existing utilities.