EPA Preparing Multiple Policy Shifts In State Air Planning, Permitting

Editor's Note: This article has been updated to correctly attribute the Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies. EPA is planning a series of changes to numerous air policies using both regulations and new or revised guidance documents -- including state air quality planning; plant startup, shutdown and malfunction waivers; air permitting; and air quality modeling -- according to presentations by EPA officials at a recent state air regulators’ meeting. In a Sept. 29 presentation to the Association...