Senate Republicans' Bills Aim To Overhaul Key EPA Air, Climate Programs

Senate Republicans are pushing three bills aimed at significantly overhauling key EPA air quality and climate change programs, including forcing the agency to delay by several years its proposed revision to the ozone air standard and to revise its regulations in a bid to improve and accelerate its “exceptional events” air policy. The legislation , introduced by Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) March 3 as a package of bills with various GOP co-sponsors, would require amending the Clean Air Act...