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Litigation Update: Clean Power Plan, New Source Performance Standards, and Effluent Limitations

UPDATED 07.25.2018 On August 11, 2017, EPA announced in a letter that it will conduct a new rulemaking to “potentially revise the new, more stringent Best Available Technology Economically Achievable effluent limitations and Pretreatment Standards for Existing Sources in the … Continue reading

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NCDEQ Files Motion to Withdraw from CPP Litigation

UPDATED 07.25.2018 On March 7, 2017, the court granted NCDEQ’s motion to withdraw as petitioner. Earlier today, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ), filed a motion to withdraw as a petitioner from the Clean Power Plan litigation.  The … Continue reading

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Army Reverses Course, Grants Easement for Dakota Access Pipeline; Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Seeks a Preliminary Injunction and Temporary Restraining Order

On February 8, 2017 the Army Corps of Engineers granted an easement to Dakota Access, LLC, a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners, allowing the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under the Missouri River at Lake Oahe in North Dakota.  The … Continue reading

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Second Series of CPP Litigation Commences

While we await a decision in West Virginia v. EPA, the D.C. Circuit has been handed a new set of CPP challenges to address: petitions seeking review of EPA’s January 17, 2017 denial of petitions for reconsideration and requests for … Continue reading

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Northeast States Move to Intervene in Wisconsin v. EPA

Last week, New York, Maryland, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Massachusetts filed a joint motion with the D.C. Circuit, seeking to intervene in Wisconsin v. EPA and requesting prompt implementation of the EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Update for … Continue reading

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