EPA 'Consistency' Policy Might Lead To Uneven Clean Air Act Enforcement

August 28, 2015
EPA's proposal to exclude adverse appellate court rulings on its Clean Air Act policies from applying nationwide might lead to uneven enforcement of the air law, some observers say, as the plan appears to give agency regions broad discretion to respond to such rulings absent any guidance from headquarters on a uniform response. Despite the potential for varying applications of appellate decisions across the agency's 10 regions, one industry source says the issue "isn't going to come up that often,...


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