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Rule published on Nov. 5 by Environmental Protection Agency

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page rule on Nov. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The rule is focused on Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; Approval of Revision to the VOC Rule Governing Automotive and Light-duty Truck Coating Operations.

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 Nov. 5

Title
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; Approval of Revision to the VOC Rule Governing Automotive and Light-duty Truck Coating Operations
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; Proposed Approval of Revision to the VOC Rule Governing Automotive and Light-duty Truck Coating Operations
Lead, Identification of Dangerous Levels of Lead; Extension of Comment Period and Rescheduling of Public Meeting
Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes: State of Idaho and the Fort Hall Indian Reservation
New York Marine Sanitation Device Standard; Receipt of Petition and Tentative Determination
Certain Chemicals; Premanufacture Notices
Pesticides; Science Policy Issues Related to the Food Quality Protection Act
State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group (SFIREG) Pesticide Operations and Management Working Committee; Open Meeting
Draft Toxicological Review of Benzene (Noncancer Effects): In Support of Summary Information on the Integrated Risk Information System