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What did Environmental Protection Agency publish on April 13?

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a four page rule on April 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The rule is focused on Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Pennsylvania; Redesignation of the Allentown Nonattainment Area to Attainment for the 2006 24-Hour Fine Particulate Matter Standard.

More than half of the Agency's employees are engineers, scientists and protection specialists. The Climate Reality Project, a global climate activist organization, accused Agency leadership in the last five years of undermining its main mission.

Notices are required documents detailing rules and regulations being proposed by each federal department. This allows the public to see what issues legislators and federal departments are focusing on.

Any person or organization can comment on the proposed rules. Departments and agencies must then address “significant issues raised in comments and discuss any changes made,” the Federal Register says.

Notices published by the Environmental Protection Agency on April 13

Title
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Pennsylvania; Redesignation of the Allentown Nonattainment Area to Attainment for the 2006 24-Hour Fine Particulate Matter Standard
Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Northern Sierra Air Quality Management District
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Virginia-Prevention of Significant Deterioration; Amendment to the Definition of “Regulated NSR Pollutant” Concerning Condensable Particulate Matter
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; District of Columbia; Infrastructure Requirements for the 2008 Ozone, 2010 Nitrogen Dioxide, and 2010 Sulfur Dioxide National Ambient Air Quality Standards; Approval of Air Pollution Emergency Episode Plan
Decision To Issue Clean Air Act Permit for the Four Corners Power Plant
San Gabriel Valley Area 2 Superfund Site; Proposed Notice of Administrative Settlement
Proposed CERCLA Administrative Cost Recovery Settlement; Adam Spell, St. Albans Gas and Light Company Site, St. Albans, Vermont
Proposed CERCLA Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent for Removal Action: Former Synergy Site, Claremont, New Hampshire