EPA Moves To Bar Startup, Shutdown Air Exemptions In Multiple States

EPA is proposing to restore its ban on state exemptions from air regulations for periods of facility startup, shutdown and malfunction (SSM) in Texas, Iowa and North Carolina, but it is also planning to strip newly identified exemptions from five other states’ air quality plans, as the agency moves to implement long-delayed Obama-era policy. In a proposal slated for publication in the Federal Register Feb. 24, EPA as expected says it will reverse the Trump administration’s decision to exclude...