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Sierra Club and Allies Agree to Short-Term Extension for Release of EPA Toxic Wastewater Guidelines
Case Updates:
December 11, 2012
On December 11, Sierra Club, Defenders of Wildlife, Earthjustice, and Environmental joined the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in filing a joint motion to extend the deadline for releasing new toxic wastewater controls until April 2013.
Coal-fired power plants are the biggest sources of toxic water pollution in the country, but EPA’s stale, thirty-year old rules do not set any limits controlling dangerous metals like mercury and lead being dumped into waterways from the plants.
To protect the public from the nearly three million pounds of toxics the plants release into our waterways annually, the groups went to court two years ago to require EPA to update the rules. EPA was to have released the rules this week, but fell behind.
The groups have allowed EPA to take a limited amount of time to complete the rulemaking process, but will allow no additional delay. It is essential that EPA protect the health of families across the US who are being affected by water pollution.
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Sierra Club and Allies Agree to Short-Term Extension for Release of EPA Toxic Wastewater GuidelinesDecember 11, 2012 Sierra Club Press Release
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