'RESIDUAL RISK' RULE FOR GAS TERMINALS UNLIKELY TO IMPOSE NEW CUTS

EPA is winning approval from industry groups over its second proposed residual risk rule, which addresses gas terminals, and like the program's first rule does not require any additional pollution reductions from industry. Environmentalists say they have not had time to review the new rule. However, the measure closely tracks the controversial provisions in the residual risk rule for coke ovens that EPA finalized this spring, which states and activist groups both criticized for violating the Clean Air Act, although...