EPA Enhances Air Toxics Risk, SIP Backlog Plans To End OIG Criticism

EPA will take further steps to improve its communication of air toxics risks to the public, and to more quickly whittle down its backlog of state air plans that are awaiting approval, ending protracted investigations by the agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) that repeatedly faulted agency policy on both issues. In recent letters to the agency’s Office of Air and Radiation (OAR), Inspector General Sean O’Donnell accepts further corrective actions outlined by acting agency air chief Joe Goffman, after...