Refiners, Inhofe Urge EPA To Scrap Industry Air Rules, Craft New Analyses

October 30, 2014
Major refiners and Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) are urging EPA to scrap its proposed stricter refinery emissions rules and pursue new analyses of the regulations' potential adverse harms for the sector, outlining what they say are a host of legal, practical and economic flaws with the proposal that could serve as grounds for future litigation. “EPA has proposed numerous requirements without identifying or justifying the legal bases for its actions or presenting emission, burden, and cost analyses for comment,” say...


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