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Environmental Protection Agency publishes rule on Sept. 23

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a four page rule on Sept. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The rule is focused on Air Plan Approval; West Virginia; 2020 Amendments to West Virginia's Ambient Air Quality Standards.

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. 23

Title
Air Plan Approval; West Virginia; 2020 Amendments to West Virginia's Ambient Air Quality Standards
Improvements for Heavy-Duty Engine and Vehicle Test Procedures, and Other Technical Amendments
Air Plan Approval; TN; Montgomery County Limited Maintenance Plan for the 1997 8-Hour Ozone NAAQS
Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request: Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Notification of Episodic Releases of Oil and Hazardous Substances (Renewal) EPA ICR Number 1049.15, OMB Control Number 2050-0046
Access by United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Contractor and Subcontractors to Information Claimed as Confidential Business Information (CBI) Submitted Under Clean Air Act (CAA) and Act To Prevent Pollution From Ships (APPS)
Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request; Information Collection Request for Green Power Partnership and Combined Heat and Power Partnership; EPA ICR Number 2173.07 (Renewal); OMB Control No. 2060-0578
Certain New Chemicals; Receipt and Status Information for August 2021