EPA FINE PARTICLE PROPOSAL INCLUDES CONTROVERSIAL EXEMPTIONS

EPA's long-awaited rule to implement new limits on fine particulate matter (PM2.5) appears likely to meet challenges from environmentalists, since it is less prescriptive than activists had urged and it relaxes some key requirements. Specifically, the rule does not require strict deadlines and pollution control requirements that activists have been seeking; it relaxes new source review (NSR) requirements in some areas compared to an earlier standard for large particles; and it eliminates another pollution control mandate, known as reasonably available...