California Downplays SIP Impacts Of Proposed Clean-Fuel Waiver

September 7, 2005
California officials poised to approve an emergency waiver of their clean-gasoline vapor pressure standard to increase fuel supply to the state in the wake of Hurricane Katrina are downplaying expected air pollution impacts, and note that EPA has indicated these impacts will not be counted against their state implementation plan (SIP) to meet federal ambient air quality standards. California, along with a handful of other states, must change their own clean-fuel rules to provide supply relief despite a recent EPA...


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