EPA Plan For Newly Listed Air Toxics Eyes Limited Regulatory Expansion

EPA’s just-proposed framework for how to regulate newly listed hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) will potentially expand the number of air toxics regulations to which facilities are subjected, along with their permitting burdens, but falls short of environmentalists’ demands for more-sweeping regulation as a direct result of any new listing. In a proposal quietly signed by EPA Administrator Michael Regan Sept. 6, and scheduled to be published in the Federal Register Sept. 13, EPA aims to establish a new regulatory...