NORTH CAROLINA FIGHTS EPA PLAN ADDRESSING BID FOR STRICT OZONE LIMITS

August 11, 2005
North Carolina state officials are vowing to challenge EPA's plan to reject their petition seeking strict controls on power plant emissions from upwind states and are calling for the agency to make the requirements more stringent than under the agency's clean air interstate rule (CAIR). The state wants EPA to set emissions limits in several upwind states beyond those in CAIR's cap-and-trade scheme for power plants, and to implement tighter deadlines than under CAIR. Also, the state is opposing an...


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