Rules that allow the Department of Environmental Protection to waive its own regulations are legal, a state appeals court said Thursday in turning back a challenge by environmental and labor organizations.

The "power to promulgate a regulation implies the incidental authority to suspend or waive its application in certain limited, well-defined circumstances," Appellate Division Judges Anthony Parrillo, Jack Sabatino and Douglas Fasciale held.

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