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priate and necessary and, consequently, the EPA
was required to set rules for EGUs as a result
of the agency adding them as a source category,
as described in Section 112 of the CAA. As required
by the CAA, the deadline for the mercury
rule's revision was Dec. 20, 2002. However,
the EPA failed to meet that deadline. As a result,
several environmental groups filed suit to
compel the EPA to issue emission standards for
EGUs (Izaak Walton League v. Leavitt, D.D.C.
No. 04-0694). The deadline for the standard to
be issued then became Mar. 15, 2005.
Instead of issuing a rule for Section 112 of the
CAA for EGUs, the EPA subsequently issued
an action on Mar. 29, 2005, that delisted EGUs
from Section 112 regulation. Shortly after the
delisting action, the EPA issued the Clean Air
Mercury Rule (CAMR), on May 18, 2005. That
rule was meant to regulate mercury emissions
from new and existing coal-fired EGUs under
Section 111 of the CAA. Again, environmental
groups and states took issue with the EPA's delisting
without following requirements outlined
in Section 112.
The result of that legal challenge (New Jersey
v. EPA, 517 F.3d, D.C. Cir. 2008) reversed both
actions taken by the EPA in 2005: The delisting
action in March and the subsequent CAMR
issuance in May. In striking down CAMR,
the court simply postponed but did not negate
implementation of mercury regulations. Furthermore,
reversal of the delisting action further
confirmed the EPA's obligation to finalize emission
standards under Section 112 of the CAA.
In order to ensure an emission standard
was issued in a timely manner, environmental
groups once again filed suit to seek enforceable
deadlines on the EPA (American Nurses Association
v. EPA, DDC No. 08-2198). The result
of this suit set a deadline of Nov. 16, 2011, for
a finalized air toxics standard. Pursuant to this
settlement, the EPA signed the promulgated
MATS rule on Dec. 16, 2011, and published it
in the Federal Register on Feb. 16, 2012.
True to the history of this regulation, litigation
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Stallion, the National Mining Association, the
National Black Chamber of Commerce, and the
Institute for Liberty all filed suit the same day
as MATS was finalized. These suits have not
been resolved and have been consolidated into
a single action.
Reconsideration of MATS
In June 2012, Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.)
introduced a motion in Congress that would
have overturned the MATS regulation. This
motion (Senate Joint Resolution 37), put forth
under the Congressional Review Act, could
have sent the regulation back to the EPA to be
rewritten under congressional review. However,
when brought before the Senate on June 19, the
resolution was narrowly defeated.
Although not required by Congress,
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the EPA took action on July 20 to review
MATS. The EPA issued a letter acknowledging
that a number of petitions had been
received specifically addressing measurement
issues associated with mercury for
new sources. In addition to addressing
measurement problems with mercury, the
data set used to set new source standards
for particulate matter and hydrochloric
acid will be revisited to ensure variability
calculations were applied correctly.
The issues to be reviewed will be mostly
technical in nature and are not expected to affect
the rule's legality. An expedited review process
has been initiated. However, final reconsideration
of the rulemaking will not be complete until
March 2013. In the meantime, a stay of three
months was given by the EPA for the effective
date of the new source emission standards.
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