Lime Producers Seek To Ease EPA’s Air Toxics Plan Ahead Of Release

As EPA prepares to release a supplemental plan governing air toxics releases from lime manufacturing facilities, producers and their congressional supporters are urging officials not to repropose substantially tighter limits for the sector that they say are unnecessary, would not be cost-effective and would increase greenhouse gas emissions. Instead, representatives from the industry, a major supplier of material for construction, agricultural and other projects, are asking EPA to consider weaker “health-based” standards in place of technology-driven limits at the nation’s...