EPA Defends 111(d) Implementing Rule Governing State Air Standard Plans

EPA is defending its rule implementing a Clean Air Act (CAA) provision governing how states write plans to comply with climate and other air standards for existing stationary sources -- charging GOP-led states are seeking to pummel EPA’s role under the law to set national standards. “West Virginia’s objections are based on an alternative vision of the statute that departs from the plain text and would reduce EPA’s regulatory determinations to mere suggestions that states could freely ignore,” EPA writes...