NORTHEASTERN MULTI-POLLUTANT STRATEGY FACING NUMEROUS OBSTACLES

BURLINGTON, VT -- Ambitious plans by the Ozone Transport Commission (OTC) to set caps on emissions from power plants and industrial boilers more stringent than EPA's clean air interstate rule (CAIR) face a number of obstacles in the coming months, state officials and other sources say. Meeting the group's deadline for drafting a model rule to set these limits next spring will be difficult because OTC needs time to run new modeling that could delay the start date of the...