Ozone Implementation Plan Shows Major Divisions Among Stakeholders

EPA's proposal for how to implement its latest ozone ambient air standard is highlighting major divisions among stakeholders, with several states and industry groups faulting the agency's approach to weighing international emissions in states' compliance plans and environmentalists attacking parts of the rule as too weak to reduce ozone. Various groups weighed in ahead of a Feb. 13 deadline for input on the Obama EPA's proposal that outlines how to craft state implementation plans (SIPs) in which states detail their...