EPA SETTLEMENT DELAYS RELEASE OF MOBILE SOURCE AIR TOXICS RULE

EPA has delayed earlier plans to issue an air toxics rule for mobile sources by the end of this year, after reaching an agreement with environmentalists to propose the rule next year. The agency proposed a settlement July 22 with the Sierra Club and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, which had sued the agency in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for failing to meet statutory obligations to release a mobile source air toxics (MSAT) rule...