Tag: startup

Air pollution, pollutants, smokestacks

EPA Rolls Back Startup and Shutdown Excess Emissions Prohibition

On October 9, 2020, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler issued a memorandum to EPA regional administrators addressing “the question of whether and when it may be permissible for a state to include certain types of provisions governing periods of startup, shutdown, and malfunction (SSM) in state implementation plans (SIPs) developed pursuant to section 110 of the […]