Sierra Club Largely Prevails On Power Plant Summary Judgment Bid

Mealey's (January 12, 2022, 7:05 AM EST) -- CONCORD, N.H. — In an order issued Dec. 30, a federal judge in New Hampshire said the operators of a power plant are entitled to partial summary judgment on just one of four claims asserted by two environmental groups, agreeing with the defendants that “under the statutory canon that ‘the expression of one thing in a statute implies the exclusion of another,’ the absence of any reference to ‘cooling water’ in the waste and sewage provision” in a New Hampshire statute “signifies that the provision does not regulate” the power plant’s discharges....