EPA Approach For Haze Emissions Controls Spurs Debate On Consistency

Observers are split over whether EPA is taking a consistent approach at headquarters and among its regions on how it reviews the adequacy of best available retrofit technology (BART) emissions control requirements in states' regional haze reduction plans, an important factor in EPA determining whether to impose its own plans on states. The regional haze program requires states to develop state implementation plans (SIPs) describing the controls they will require as BART on industrial sources of pollution, in order to...