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Environmental Protection Agency publishes proposed rule on Nov. 12

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page proposed rule on Nov. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on National Emission Standard for Benzene Waste 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. 12

Title
National Emission Standard Benzene Waste Operations
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; Pennsylvania; Redesignation of the Allegheny County Carbon Monoxide Nonattainment Area and Approval of Miscellaneous Revisions
National Emission Standard for Benzene Waste Operations
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Virginia; Nitrogen Oxides Budget Trading Program
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; Pennsylvania; Redesignation of the Allegheny County Carbon Monoxide Nonattainment Area and Approval of Miscellaneous Revisions
National Management Measures to Control Nonpoint Source Pollution from Urban Areas-Extension of Comment Period
Preliminary Administrative Determination Document on the Question of Whether Ferric Ferrocyanide is One of the ``Cyanides'' Within the Meaning of the List of Toxic Pollutants Under the Clean Water Act