Louisiana's Sulfur Dioxide Cleanup Gets EPA Green Light
Published Date: 5/8/2025
Proposed Rule
Summary
The EPA is set to approve Louisiana’s plan to clean up sulfur dioxide pollution in Evangeline Parish, making the air safer to breathe. This plan includes new rules for the Cabot Corporation’s Ville Platte Plant and shows steady progress toward meeting air quality goals. The changes kick in soon and won’t require extra costs for new pollution controls beyond what’s already planned.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
EPA proposes SO2 cleanup in Evangeline Parish
The EPA is proposing to approve Louisiana’s plan submitted on April 2, 2025 to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) pollution in the Evangeline Parish nonattainment area. The plan includes an attainment demonstration, a reasonable further progress plan, reasonably available control measures and technology (RACM/RACT), emission inventories, and contingency measures to make the air safer to breathe.
AOC for Cabot plant without extra control costs
The SIP revision includes an Agreed Order on Consent (AOC) for the Cabot Corporation’s Ville Platte Plant. The EPA statement says these changes will not require extra costs for new pollution controls beyond what is already planned.
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