Anne Idsal, EPA's acting Office of Air & Radiation chief, is detailing an ambitious dereguiatory agenda for the coming years including finalizing rollbacks of major Obama-era rules and issuing policies to ease compliance mandates for states and industry, amid observers' doubts over the content of, and justification for, some of the efforts. She told a Nov. 7 meeting of EPA's Clean Air Act Advisory Committee (CAAAC) in Arlington, VA, that the agenda includes implementation of its final Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) greenhouse gas rule for power plants, which replaced the Obama EPA's broader Clean Power Plan. States have three years - until July 8, 2022 - to submit their compliance plans for agency approval, and Idsal urged them to begin the work swiftly.
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