ADMINISTRATION WEIGHS EXEMPTING MINNESOTA FROM AIR TRANSPORT RULE

High-level EPA and White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) officials are considering a Minnesota power company's request -- supported by key members of the state's congressional delegation -- to exempt Minnesota from regulation under the agency's pending interstate air pollution rule. The company, Minnesota Power, is arguing that a proposed threshold for tracking whether a state is sending pollution downwind is too low to be modeled effectively, that Minnesota is already complying with clean air standards and that...