Air Toxics Rule For Coatings Sector Avoids 1-BP Limits As EPA Crafts Policy

EPA has promulgated new air toxics standards for industrial coating operations but in the just-issued final rule, the agency declined environmentalists’ warnings to issue one of the first such limits for the solvent 1-bromopropane (1-BP), the first substance EPA has added to its list of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) since Congress revised the Clean Air Act in 1990. The decision is raising policy questions about how the agency plans to regulate industrial releases of the solvent since its 2022 listing...