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Despite resistance from industry groups and bipartisan lawmakers, EPA has finalized its rule toughening air toxics requirements for 10 integrated iron and steel plants, adding new air toxics limits for previously unregulated equipment and pollutants and mandating fenceline monitoring while providing some concessions to ease compliance burdens.

The White House has begun review of EPA’s final rule setting first-time requirements for hundreds of currently unregulated legacy and other coal ash facilities, a measure that once finalized is expected to boost EPA and environmentalist efforts to address the waste though it is likely to face a stiff industry challenge.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is blocking inclusion of a Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) reauthorization in an upcoming spending bill -- a proposal that the source says may be the “last shot” to revive the lapsed program, a top chemical industry official says.

From Inside TSCA

EPA has released its final TSCA risk-management rule for chrysotile asbestos, aiming to phase out the carcinogen from chlor-alkali production on a sliding timeline that will run between five and 12 years based in part on the alternative technology to which a facility is switching-- a win for industry groups that argued the proposed two-year deadline was impossible.

EPA’s final air rule limiting ethylene oxide (EtO) emissions from commercial sterilizers sets stringent emissions limits, but also rejects calls from environmentalists and Democratic states for regulation of off-site warehouses and for fenceline air monitoring, and extends the compliance timeline far beyond what was proposed.

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