Loss Of ORD Likely To Strain EPA, State Air Regulators, Delay Rules

EPA’s plan to shutter its Office of Research and Development (ORD) will stymie the air office’s ability to comply with statutory obligations to write a variety of rules, placing additional burdens on state regulators faced with likely cuts to their federal funding and possibly delaying numerous EPA air rules that are required by law, sources say. The loss of ORD “would be devastating” to the Office of Air and Radiation (OAR), which has responsibility for air issues, says one former...