A top EPA enforcement official says the agency is seeing "rampant noncompliance" with EPA's new source review (NSR) rules that require new or modified facilities to install emissions controls, prompting dozens of enforcement actions against coal-fired power plants and several industrial sectors.rnSpeaking to an American Bar Association conference here, Adam Kushner, director of EPA's Office of Civil Enforcement, says the agency has 50 ongoing investigations against coal-fired power plants, and is also actively looking at dozens of other industrial sectors, including poly vinyl chloride (PVC) manufacturers, acid producers, cement plants and glass manufacturers, carbon black producers, oil and gas producers, polystyrene foam, landfills, industrial boilers, iron and steel manufacturers, natural gas transmission, aluminum smelters, municipal waste combustors, ethanol producers, wood products and pulp and paper facilities.
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