UTAH, EPA DEAL SEEN AS ALTERNATIVE TO NATIONAL FARM EMISSIONS PLAN

The state of Utah and EPA Region VIII have signed an agreement to monitor air emissions as an alternative to a controversial nationwide settlement agreement that provides participants a temporary enforcement exemption from federal requirements. However, environmentalists who were left out of the Utah negotiations are questioning the deal. The state agreement, signed last month, does not provide the same legal protection as the national deal, but Utah farmers like it better because it also does not require them to...