ACTIVISTS LOBBY STATES TO ADOPT CALIFORNIA RULE ON FLARING EMISSIONS

Environmentalists are lobbying air officials in Northeast and Southern states to adopt first-time regulations limiting refineries' ability to burn off excess gases, and are pushing a new rule in a California air district as a model for these states to adopt. Activists are aiming for states to emulate a regulation developed by California's South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD). The AQMD rule imposes stringent restrictions on when facilities can burn off excess gases in a process known as flaring,...