EPA MAY ALLOW CAIR TO TAKE PLACE OF NATIONAL PARK AIR QUALITY RULES

EPA may propose allowing certain states to avoid controversial limits to improve air quality in national parks and other areas, if they can show they achieve equivalent benefits under the cap-and-trade program set out in the clean air interstate rule (CAIR). The proposal appears certain to meet criticism from environmentalists and state officials, who have argued that allowing a cap-and-trade as a substitute for localized limits could make individual parks vulnerable to pollution. And because CAIR only applies to eastern...