EPA TO ADDRESS PM2.5 'HOT SPOTS' IN TRANSPORTATION CONFORMITY RULES

EPA will amend its transportation conformity plans for the agency's fine particulate matter (PM2.5) standards after acknowledging in a legal settlement with activists that the plans fail to address localized concentrations of PM2.5 known as "hot spots." EPA is taking comment on its proposal to issue regulatory amendments by March 31, 2006, as part of a Sept. 8 proposed settlement agreement in the case Environmental Defense et al. v. EPA , filed in the United States Court of Appeals for...