MANUFACTURERS CONTINUE PUSHING LIMITS ON SCOPE OF EPA TRANSPORT RULE

Large manufacturers, including industrial boilers, chemical plants and paper companies, are ramping up pressure on the Bush administration to exempt their facilities from the clean air interstate rule (CAIR) and future initiatives to restrict interstate air pollution transport. The group is urging the White House to only include an industrial source in CAIR if doing so would allow at least 16 new counties to attain national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). This language, included in a supplement to the CAIR...