EPA ACTION ON UPSET EMISSIONS PLANS MAY CURTAIL ACTIVISTS' CHALLENGES

EPA is proposing to remove the public's ability to access company plans for dealing with unanticipated pollution known as "upset" emissions which may expose communities to high levels of air toxics like benzene, in a move that could curtail environmentalists' ability to pursue lawsuits challenging chemical plants and refineries. The move comes in response to a regulatory petition an environmental group filed seeking more access to these plans, and after a separate activist group filed a lawsuit over the same...