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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) CCR Rule Hazardous Waste

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Environmental Groups Challenge “Part B” Revisions to CCR Rule

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On February 11, three environmental groups — Sierra Club, Alliance for Affordable Energy, and PennEnvironment, Inc. — filed a petition for review in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals (D.C. Circuit) challenging the U.S....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Closure: EPA Finalizes Long-awaited CCR Rule Revisions and Surface Impoundment Deadlines

Following years of litigation and a segmented rulemaking process, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized revisions to portions of its coal combustion residuals (CCR) regulations governing, among other...more

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Courts to Environmental Plaintiffs: Use RCRA, not Clean Water Act, to Address Coal-Ash Disposal at Coal-Fired Power Plants

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In three recent decisions, the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Fourth Circuit and Sixth Circuit have signaled the courts’ refusal to allow environmental plaintiffs to use the federal Clean Water Act to address coal ash...more

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The Fate of the CCR Rule “is” Still in Dispute

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In May of last year, Environmental Notes reported on the many petitions that had been filed challenging EPA’s 2015 promulgation of a final waste management rule addressing the management and disposal of coal combustion...more

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