EPA Limits Regional Measures In Report On Environmental Trends

EPA's top officials have decided to scale back a staff proposal to include data on a host of regional environmental trends in its upcoming report on the state of the environment, sources say. However, the officials, including EPA Administrator-nominee Steve Johnson, recently decided to include a host of new indicators on national environmental trends in the upcoming report. The sources say Johnson and many of the agency's top political appointees agreed with arguments from EPA General Counsel Ann Klee at...