WESTERN STATES URGE DIALOGUE WITH EPA TO BLUNT HAZE RULING

State and local government officials in the West are pledging to cooperate with EPA in the development of analyses bolstering the legal rationale for a regional emissions trading program for sulfur dioxide (SO2), responding to a ruling questioning the basis for the program for addressing haze problems at national parks and monuments. Five Western states and the city of Albuquerque, NM, wrote a letter March 4 to EPA air chief Jeffrey Holmstead urging that EPA immediately engage with the states...