ACTIVISTS MOUNT CAMPAIGN FOR CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT IN AIR SETTLEMENTS

Activists are mounting a campaign to criticize EPA and state settlements with refineries and chemical plants for Clean Air Act violations, claiming communities have little say in environmental projects mandated in the settlements. Activists are organizing meetings with EPA officials to take issue with an agency policy for allowing companies to fund what are known as supplemental environmental projects (SEPs) instead of paying large fines for air act violations. The activists do not oppose the idea of SEPs, but claim...