STATES BLAST EPA FOR LIMITED TIME TO REVIEW MAJOR CAIR MODEL CHANGES

State groups are angry with EPA for changing the modeling method used to estimate pollution reductions achievable under the clean air interstate rule (CAIR) without giving stakeholders enough time to comment. The groups say that using new modeling data to support an already-proposed rule is highly unusual and potentially problematic, adding they cannot evaluate in the 21 days EPA is allowing for comment whether the complex modifications are accurate and appropriate. "Clearly, to suggest that anything this exhaustive ought to...