EPA Denies Air Toxics Waiver For Turbines, Prepares Multi-Pollutant Strategy

EPA has denied industry’s longstanding effort to “delist” over 1,000 stationary combustion turbines at 300 facilities from Clean Air Act air toxics regulations, a widely anticipated move that prepares the way for a broad new strategy that will address air toxics, ozone and greenhouse gases from the source category, the agency says. “Today’s action will ensure people who live, work and play near these facilities are protected from harmful air pollution,” said EPA Administrator Michael Regan, announcing the final decision...