Regulations governing coal ash disposal fly beyond the EPA’s authority to govern solid wastes, according to opening briefs filed by states and utility associations in the D.C. Circuit.
Texas and City Utilities of Springfield, Mo., are leading a legal charge against a rule finalized under former President Joe Biden that targets the waste that is produced from coal combustion.
The Environmental Protection Agency regulates this coal ash, which requires special landfills, under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Groups and states allege that the rule goes beyond that authority and regulates areas where waste was once disposed of, but no ...
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