EPA Walks Back Lead Battery Plants’ Tougher Air Limits After Industry Push

EPA’s final air rule limiting lead emissions from lead-acid battery manufacturing plants substantially tightens current limits, but not as much as proposed, after industry complaints convinced officials to walk back one tougher pollution limit based on updated information, and spurred EPA to narrow the application of measures to curb “fugitive” emissions. In its rule published Feb. 23 in the Federal Register , EPA tightens new source performance standards (NSPS) for the sector, and also makes conforming changes setting the...