EPA, PULP INDUSTRY DOUBT BENEFIT FROM MEETING ACTIVIST DEMANDS

EPA and the pulp and paper industry are raising doubts about a new campaign launched by environmentalists to encourage facilities to clean up their production methods so they can be declassified as major sources of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). One agency source says the declassification incentive is false because of an agency air toxics policy known as "once in, always in," meaning that factories already subject to regulation could not be released. A spokeswoman for tissue industry leader Kimberly Clark,...