EPA Pulls Fire Emissions Policy Over Interagency Agriculture Concerns

摘要

EPA has withdrawn its long-pending plan to strengthen a policy on protecting public health and air quality visibility during prescribed fires due to interagency concerns about how the policy addresses agricultural burning.rnThe draft policy revisions under review were to update the agency's 1998 interim policy designed to help states reduce emissions during planned forest fires, and seeks to add agricultural fires for the first time. It is unclear how the revisions addressed agricultural burning, though some states had pressed for strict guidelines.