White House Touts EPA’s Support For Novel Trading Plan In Permit Push

The White House is touting EPA’s recently proposed rule conditionally endorsing the Phoenix region’s plan to attain federal air quality standards using a novel mobile source credit trading program, saying the measure is part of a broader suite of actions the Biden administration is taking to ease permitting for various projects. EPA’s rule “will allow the county, which is now a center of semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S., to continue to build semiconductor [fabrication plants] essential to our nation’s future...