EPA Proposes Slightly Stricter Air Toxics Regulations For Five Industries

EPA is proposing to slightly tighten air toxics controls for five industries, the latest in a series of Clean Air Act-mandated reviews of existing hazardous air pollutant (HAP) regulations that finds public health risks from certain sectors’ emissions are acceptable and do not justify significantly tightening the emissions standards. In the five recent proposals, the Trump administration suggests making only minor changes to the existing HAP rules, generally leaving existing numeric emissions limits in place, but adding some new requirements...