Court approves water industry groups’ petition to intervene in lawsuit over EPA cyber regulation

A U.S. court of appeals has granted intervenor status to two water industry groups in a case brought by states against new cybersecurity requirements for public water systems being implemented by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The American Water Works Association and National Rural Water Association submitted a petition to intervene on May 17 in a lawsuit by the states of Missouri, Arkansas and Iowa in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, seeking to block EPA from...