DEPARTING EPA ENFORCEMENT CHIEF FOCUSES ON NSR, REFINERY DEALS

EPA's acting enforcement chief Tom Skinner, who has announced that he will leave the agency this fall, says he will focus during his remaining time on reaching settlements with the utility industry in pending Clean Air Act new source review (NSR) cases and in cases under the agency's clean air enforcement initiative against oil refineries. Skinner wrote the White House May 24 asking President Bush to withdraw his nomination to become assistant administrator of the enforcement office, which has been...