INDUSTRY RENEWS COMPLAINTS OVER EPA'S USE OF SECRET AIR QUALITY MODEL

Industry groups are restarting efforts to stop EPA from using a model that predicts how rule changes impact industrial fuel mix, again raising concerns that the model's underlying code is secret, or proprietary, so its results cannot be verified. The Industrial Energy Consumers Association (IECA) will likely complain about the model as the group awaits EPA's promised energy impact analysis of the Bush administration's proposed clean air interstate rule (CAIR), which it fears will encourage fuel switching, according to an...