EPA Defends Cross-State Pollution Rule As Response to Remand of Earlier Rule

摘要

The Cross-State Air Pollution Rule is a direct response to a federal appellate court decision striking down a prior interstate emissions trading program, the Environmental Protection Agency said in a court filing March 1 (EME Homer City Generation LP v. EPA, B.C. Cir., No. 11-1302, brief filed 3/1/12).The cross-state rule complies with an order by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that EPA rebuild its remanded Clean Air Interstate Rule "from the 'ground up,' " the agency said in a brief defending its program for curtailing interstate air pollution.