California's Haze-Busting Plan Wins EPA Approval
Published Date: 9/5/2025
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The EPA just gave a thumbs-up to California’s updated plan to clear up the skies and reduce haze in special natural areas. This plan helps keep the air cleaner and the views clearer for everyone, especially in protected parks, over the next several years. It affects industries and communities by setting new goals and timelines to cut pollution without extra costs right now.
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EPA Approves California Haze Plan
The EPA approved California’s Regional Haze State Implementation Plan that California submitted on August 9, 2022. The approved Plan sets the State’s long-term strategies to make “reasonable progress” toward preventing and remedying human-caused visibility impairment (regional haze) in mandatory Class I Federal areas during the program’s second implementation period.
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