EPA Finalizes Rule Weakening Obama-Era Resins Manufacturing NESHAP

EPA has finalized a rule that weakens an Obama-era national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) rule for amino-phenolic resins manufacturing and is also delaying implementation of the softened rule, in response to petitions from resin products urging the Trump administration to revise the regulation. The final rule published in the Oct. 15 Federal Register completes reconsideration of the April 2014 risk-and-technology-review (RTR) rule, which tightened emissions limits originally set in a January 2000 rule setting maximum achievable...