AIR DISTRICTS CONSIDER FLARE RULES AS ACTIVISTS PUSH NATIONAL STRATEGY

Environmentalists are working on a nationwide strategy to push local air officials to develop rules to control air toxics emissions from refinery flaring in the absence of a federal mandate. Activists also argue that a new flaring rule in a California air district is not stringent enough even though it is the first such mandate in the country. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District on July 20 adopted a rule to reduce the burning of excess gases at the...