OMB Meetings Highlight 11th-Hour Effort To Sway Ozone NAAQS Proposal

Public health groups, environmentalists, and organizations representing major industrial sectors are holding a series of 11th-hour meetings with EPA and White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) officials in a bid to sway the agency’s imminent proposed decision on whether to retain its existing suite of ozone ambient air limits. EPA is widely expected to propose leaving the standards unchanged from the last time they were updated in 2015, and industry groups in meetings with the agency and OMB...