EPA Ditches Pollution Rule: Too Much Paperwork, Not Enough Punch
Published Date: 7/21/2025
Proposed Rule
Summary
The EPA is pulling back a proposed rule that would have changed how new projects count their pollution emissions. This affects businesses and local air agencies who might have faced extra paperwork and costs. Since the rule wasn’t clearly needed and could cause more hassle, the EPA decided to keep things as they are for now.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
No new project emissions counting rules
If you run or own a business that builds new projects releasing pollution, the EPA withdrew the proposed changes that published on May 3, 2024. That means you will not have to follow the new emissions accounting revisions and may avoid the extra paperwork and compliance costs the proposal could have caused.
State/Tribal/local air agencies spared extra work
State, Tribal, and local air agencies that implement New Source Review rules will not have to adopt the proposed emissions accounting revisions the EPA published on May 3, 2024. The EPA said those revisions could have created unnecessary additional burden, and withdrawing the proposal keeps current implementation practices in place.
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