Industry Calls For Relaxed Haze Rule Following New Emissions Study

Industry officials argue EPA should consider relaxing controls on regional haze, in the wake of a study that finds significant contributions from wildfires and from pollution that crosses international borders. The report by the industry-funded Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and three Harvard University scientists finds that factoring in the influence of uncontrollable transboundary pollution and wildfire frequency in EPA's 1999 regional haze rule could decrease the emissions reductions required from domestic sources. But an agency source says the rule...