EPA Haze Plan Denials Escalate Clash With States Ahead Of Trump Transition

EPA’s disapprovals of more state plans to reduce regional haze are escalating a growing clash about how to implement the haze program ahead of a likely push by states, industry and the incoming Trump administration to ease and streamline the program that is behind schedule and seen as excessively onerous by its critics. In three Federal Register notices issued Dec. 2, EPA partially disapproved the state implementation plans (SIPs) of Utah, North Dakota and Wyoming for the haze program’s...