The proposed regulation takes aim at toxic emissions from chemical manufacturers in the U.S.
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Chemical plants that make, store, use, or emit these toxins “would be required to monitor levels of these air pollutants entering the air at the fenceline of the facility,” according to the EPA. The data collected by these facilities would have to be public on the agency’s. If the recorded emissions are too high, facility owners and operators “would have to find the source and make repairs.
EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan emphasized in an agency press release that this rule would increase protections for communities like St. John the Baptist Parish, which is in
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