Utilities, Capito criticize ‘meager’ CSAPR comment extension

Midwestern utilities and industrial companies, backed by a key GOP senator, are rejecting as “meager” and “insufficient” EPA’s two-week extension of the deadline for public comment on its proposed larger Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR), saying the agency fails to appreciate the challenge presented by the plan’s sweeping scope. In a May 23 letter to EPA, the Midwest Ozone Group (MOG) of utilities and other industrial companies says the comment extension, from June 6 to June 21, falls far short...