Critics say it will put many areas out of attainment with the NAAQS, forcing them to impose expensive pollution controls on industry that will drive businesses away and hurt local economies.Stuart ParkerInside Epas Environmental Policy Alert
August 24, 2023 Tweet EPA is soliciting public input on which studies it should include in its forthcoming statutory review of federal ozone limits, only days after announcing its decision to drop a reconsideration of Trump-era standards and to instead conduct a fresh assessment to support a regu...
EPA is fighting environmentalists' suit seeking court-ordered deadlines for states to submit plans for meeting the agency's 2008 ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS), with the agency claiming the Clean Air Act does not require it to set a timetable for states to submit the pla...
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler is defending his just-announced final decision to retain the agency’s current federal ozone standards, fending off criticisms from environmentalists, former agency advisers and others that the Trump administration downplayed evidence of adverse health effects in order to...
State officials keen to implement ozone pollution cuts also have concerns that Obama administration fear of political backlash from the costs of implementing the standard could be behind the reason for the years-long plan. The schedule, outlined in a Sept. 22 memo from EPA air chief Gina Mc...
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designated as nonattainment for the 2006 and/or the 1997 PM2.5 NAAQS. For a Moderate area, CAA Section 188(c)(1) of Subpart 4 establishes an attainment deadline of as expeditiously as practicable but no later than the end of the sixth calendar year after designation as nonattainment. ...
States with designated nonattainment areas will have to submit plans (i.e., state implementation plans, or SIPs) by 2007 describing how the state will meet the eight-hour ozone NAAQS. Deadlines for achieving the NAAQS will range from 2007 to 2021, depending on the severity of the ozone ...
hinting at further delays that could push a final standard until the end of August or later."EPA believes that this inter-agency review will be completed shortly, after which EPA expects expeditiously to sign the final action that will complete its rulemaking reconsidering the ozone NAAQS rule,"...
Comment on Policy Issues and Control Strategies of U.S. Epa, Ozone NaaqsUnlike other atmospheric pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, lead, volatile organic compounds and total suspended particulates, ozone is not a primary pollutant, but is produced from a variety ...