EPA Unveils Plan To Ease State Waiver Policy On International Emissions

EPA is announcing a new and significantly relaxed policy that should enable states to more easily win regulatory exemptions due to international emissions, dropping previous guidance that limited states’ ability to win waivers and reserving broader discretion for the EPA administrator, according to a proposed approval of such a waiver for Arizona. In a notice published in the Federal Register Nov. 19, EPA says it plans to approve a demonstration by state air regulators that the Phoenix area would...