EPA MAY BROADEN STATE EXEMPTION POWER UNDER HAZE CONTROL PLAN

EPA and the White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) are debating criteria for exempting individual pollution sources from new visibility requirements, amid indications that EPA's upcoming final visibility rule may give states more discretion in deciding whether a specific facility should be regulated than EPA previously proposed, according to agency and other sources. An agency source says EPA may increase the number of days a facility is likely to cause visibility effects without being subject to new emissions...