REPORT PROMPTS DEBATE OVER EPA ROLE IN SETTING STATE AIR STANDARDS

A new National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report praising California's mobile source emissions standards is prompting debate over whether EPA should have a new role in reviewing other states' efforts to adopt California's standards, which are generally stricter than EPA's. Industry sources are highlighting suggestions in the report that EPA should play a greater role in states' adoption of California standards. Environmentalists and state sources say, however, that the recommendation in the NAS report calling for a new EPA role...