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Environmental Protection Agency publishes proposed rule on Sept. 13

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

The proposed rule is focused on Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Extension of Global Laboratory and Analytical Use Exemption for Essential Class I Ozone-Depleting Substances.

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 Sept. 13

Title
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Indiana; VOC Emissions From Fuel Grade Ethanol Production Operations
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; West Virginia; Clean Air Interstate Rule
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Delaware; Control of VOC Emissions From Crude Oil Lightering Operations
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans, Kentucky Volatile Organic Compound Definition Updates
Approval of Plan of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Clean Air Mercury Rule
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; West Virginia; Clean Air Interstate Rule
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Ohio; Oxides of Nitrogen Budget Trading Program
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Indiana; VOC Emissions From Fuel Grade Ethanol Production Operations
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans Kentucky: Volatile Organic Compound Definition Updates
Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Extension of Global Laboratory and Analytical Use Exemption for Essential Class I Ozone-Depleting Substances
Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of Two Public Teleconferences of the Science Advisory Board Committee on Valuing the Protection of Ecological Systems and Services
National Drinking Water Advisory Council: Request for Nominations
Integrated Science Assessment for Carbon Monoxide