A lawyer for the EPA said the "good neighbor" rule was important to protect downwind states that receive unwanted air pollution from other states. Besides the potential health impacts, the states face their own federal deadlines to ensure clean air, said Deputy S...
A lawyer for the EPA said the "good neighbor" rule was important to protect downwind states that receive unwanted air pollution from other states. Besides the potential health impacts, the states face their own federal deadlines to ensure clean air, said Deputy Solicitor ...
EPA Weighs Easing Rules on Toxic Air PollutantsSTEVE INSKEEP
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(OMB) following a three-month review. According to OMB’s website, the rule, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NEHAP) for Major Sources: Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters: Amendments, cleared review on June 13. The final rule, which ...
EPA’s just-proposed framework for how to regulate newly listed hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) will potentially expand the number of air toxics regulations to which facilities are subjected, along with their permitting burdens, but falls short of environmentalists’ demands for more-sweeping ...
According to the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), indoor air pollutants, which come from paint, cleaning supplies, the wood in our furniture and daily-use appliances, are two to five times more concentrated than outdoor air pollutants. Thankfully, nature has already designed an air cleaner...
Reducing Air Toxics in Overburdened Communities This initiative will tackle the serious threat to communities from illicit exposure to regulated hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) from nearby industry. Many of these pollutants, such as benzene, ethylene oxide and formaldehyde, are known or suspected t...
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) applies to existing, new and reconstructed stationary Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines (RICE). Covers stationary diesel-fueled/compression ignition (CI) RICE and stationary gas-fired engines/spark ignition (SI) RICE. https://www3...
EPA is nearing release of its proposed rule establishing a method for the agency to add new substances to its list of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) regulated by the Clean Air Act, after the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) completed review of the plan ahead of its upcomi...