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Report: Turning the Clock Back on the Clean Air Act
by EIP
Shows how emissions will increase at a Nucor Steel plant and an Exxon Mobil refinery, under new EPA rules that allow companies to backslide to their highest emissions levels in the past ten years.
Oct 23, 2002

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Shows how emissions will increase at a Nucor Steel plant and an Exxon Mobil refinery, under new EPA rules that allow companies to backslide to their highest emissions levels in the past ten years.  Earlier rules generally required companies to obtain an NSR permit and install the best available pollution controls if pollution was expected to increase above more recent, two year levels.  (Analysis of the Effect of Alternate Baselines, Nucor and Mobil - the Technical Appendices need to be included).  See also, Reform or Rollback for a more recent analysis.