EPA Rejects States' Call For Large Multi-State Ozone Nonattainment Areas

EPA in its latest round of designations for areas attaining or violating the 2015 ozone air standard has rejected calls from some East Coast states and environmentalists to create large multi-state nonattainment areas with stricter pollution control mandates, saying states should pursue other Clean Air Act options to address ozone air transport. But several of the mechanisms that EPA suggests states can use to claim attainment -- for example air law provisions allowing states to win the status if they...