GROUPS SAY EPA SEEKS TO IMPLEMENT MACT OFF-RAMP WHILE HALTING SUIT

Environmental groups and state air officials say EPA is seeking to implement unprecedented exemptions from air toxics regulations for the plywood industry while fending off the groups' challenge to the legality of the exemptions. But EPA says it needs more time to respond to administrative petitions from the same activists to reconsider the rule. EPA's landmark rule for plywood and composite wood producers, published last year, drew challenges from environmentalists and others for including controversial off-ramps for companies that could...