EPA Floats 'Flexible' Options For States' Interstate Ozone Air Quality Plans

April 19, 2018
EPA is soliciting comment on a menu of “flexible” approaches states could pursue in their upcoming plans for mitigating interstate air emissions that are hindering attainment of the agency's 2015 ozone standard, as the Trump administration moves away from EPA-led emissions trading programs toward a state-led approach. In a March 27 memo to all 10 EPA regional offices , EPA's Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards Director Peter Tsirigotis details the menu of options, including using a different initial...


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