EPA MAY ALLOW CAIR TO TAKE PLACE OF NATIONAL PARK AIR QUALITY RULES

EPA may propose allowing certain states to avoid controversial limits for air quality in national parks and other clean areas, if they can show they achieve equivalent benefits under the cap-and-trade program set out in the clean air interstate rule (CAIR). The proposal appears certain to meet criticism from environmentalists and states, who have argued that allowing a cap-and-trade as a substitute for localized limits could make individual parks vulnerable to pollution. And because CAIR only applies to Eastern states...