Kansas Rejects EPA’s ‘Arbitrary,’ ‘Burdensome’ Dismissal Of Haze Plan

Kansas is criticizing EPA’s proposed disapproval of the state’s plan for reducing regional haze as arbitrary, unjustified and in excess of Clean Air Act requirements, in the first of what may be several fights between the agency and states over their plans to implement the second phase of the regional haze program that extends out to 2028. In Jan. 31 comments , the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) rejects EPA’s argument that the state wrongly avoided an in-depth...