EPA Plan To Ease Lime Kilns Air Toxics Rule Fails To Satisfy Key Groups

March 26, 2024
EPA’s supplemental plan to ease its proposed air toxics limits for the lime manufacturing industry is drawing criticism from all sides, with environmentalists urging the agency not to water down its original plan while industry groups and their congressional supporters are calling for additional changes to ease their concerns. In March 11 joint comments , Earthjustice, Sierra Club and California Communities Against Toxics oppose the agency’s Feb. 9 supplemental proposal, released in response to heavy industry criticism, that suggested setting...


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