NEW PUSH FOR AIR QUALITY FUNDING THREATENED BY EQUITY CONCERNS

Efforts to create significant new funding for mobile source emission reduction programs are being seriously threatened by heavy opposition from environmental justice (EJ) activists over a key element of the plan, according to sources involved in the effort. Peripheral political issues related to the scheduled November special election are also leading some stakeholders to believe that a compromise is unlikely to be reached this year. While some stakeholders still hope to move a bill this year that would impose a...