STATES RAISE CONCERN OVER POSSIBLE ELIMINATION OF SOME AIR TOXICS RULES

State officials and activists are alarmed by EPA suggestions that it may eliminate emissions controls on air toxics from some industrial sources, based on scientific reviews that conclude these source categories no longer pose any remaining health risks. These sources are worried that residual risk proposals EPA issued late last year for two relatively obscure source categories could set a troubling precedent for dozens of other "residual risk" rules the agency is preparing to propose. These rules are intended to...