EPA Agrees To Deadline For Sweeping Chemical Plants Air Toxics Review

EPA has agreed with environmentalists on a proposed timetable to review its air toxics regulations for hundreds of smaller “area source” chemical manufacturing facilities, in a sweeping rulemaking that could tighten emissions limits in the pesticides, plastics, pharmaceutical, synthetic rubber and other chemical sectors. In its proposed consent decree deal announced in the Oct. 20 Federal Register , EPA commits to review its national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) for the Chemical Manufacturing Area Sources (CMAS) source category...