EPA Plan To Add ‘Missing’ Air Toxics Limits Signals Shift To Stricter Policy

April 21, 2021
EPA says it will reconsider Trump-era air toxics rules for lime manufacturing plants and other facilities to establish emissions limits for pollutants not included when it first issued the regulations, backing a recent appellate court ruling that requires such “missing” limits and signaling a potential stricter Biden administration air toxics policy. The agency signals its plan in an April 20 motion filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Sierra Club v. EPA, et...


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