EPA LIKELY TO IGNORE NEW IG RECOMMENDATIONS IN MONITORING STRATEGY

EPA appears unlikely to incorporate new recommendations from the agency's inspector general (IG) into a comprehensive new strategy for ambient air monitoring, even though the agency's watchdog called for increased funding to help determine industrial sources of fine particulate matter (PM2.5). Agency officials, along with environmentalists and state officials, suggest that resources are limited and the IG's recommendations may not be a priority for EPA's monitoring program. Under its pending national monitoring strategy, EPA over the next few years will...