EPA misses smog rule deadline

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY TIMOTHY CAMA - 10/03/17 11:01 AM EDT

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) missed a legal deadline to start implementing its regulation limiting ozone pollution.

Under the Clean Air Act, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt should have published Monday his initial determinations on which areas of the country exceed the new, stricter standard on ozone, a component of smog that is linked to respiratory illnesses. But the EPA did not release any information on the initial, proposed findings on Monday. An agency spokeswoman only said Tuesday that she did not have any more information on the matter.

Pruitt sued to stop the 2015 regulation written under former President Barack Obama in his last job as Oklahoma’s attorney general.

Pruitt tried earlier this year to delay the initial compliance findings for a year. But when environmentalists and Democratic states sued, the agency walked back and said it would meet the Oct. 1 deadline — which was Sunday, but pushed to Monday for the weekend.


Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/353608-epa-misses-smog-rule-deadline

[iluvtennis]

1. My speculation is that it's intentional. Trumpians want to take away most environmental protections